Bobos in paradise
Subtitle: the new upper class and how they got there
By: David Brooks.
Edition: Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) -- United States.; Upper class -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Description: A witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age as David Brooks describes the Bobos, a word he coined to describe today's upper class, those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counter-culture.
Notes: Includes index.

Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.
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.