Bobos in paradise
Subtitle: the new upper class and how they got there
By: David Brooks
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780684853789
Other titles: New upper class and how they got there
Description: "It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.".

"But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the counter-cultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties.

These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos." "Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe. Their status codes govern social life, and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Bobos in Paradise is a witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age and a penetrating description of how we live now."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published as hbk.: c2000.

"A Touchstone book."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of the educated class; title: Consumption; title: Business life; title: Intellectual life; title: Pleasure; title: Spiritual life; title: Politics and beyond.