Bobos in Paradise - The New Upper Class and How They Got There (Paperback, Trade P/bk)

This is the story of the new upper class, the Educated Class, and how they got there. Bobos, Bourgeois Bohemians, are highly educated people who have one foot in the bohemian world of creativity and another foot in the bourgeois realm of ambition and worldly success. They are the new establishment, and, according to the author, they define our age, and their moral codes give structure to our personal lives. But bobs suffer from a gnawing problem; they are divided against themselves. They admire art, but live amidst commerce. They spend their lives selling, but worry about selling out. They are affluent, but opposed to materialism. They are by instinct anti-establishmentarian, yet somehow have become the new establishment. And the biggest conflict of all is worldly success or inner virtue. How do you move ahead in life without letting ambition wither your soul? David Brooks is a senior editor of the Weekly Standard and contributing editor at Newsweek, writing on culture and politics for the New Yorker, New York Times and other publications. In this incisive analysis of American society he has coined the new word Bobo, which comfortably fits today's British capitalist hippies. With sharp observation and dry wit, he takes a serious look at the far-reaching consequences of the information age on our way of life. (Kirkus UK)

Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.

In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today's upper class -- those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation.

General

Imprint:	Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	March 2001
Authors:	David Brooks
Dimensions:	214 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
Edition:	Trade P/bk
ISBN-13:	978-0-684-85378-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	0-684-85378-7
Barcode:	9780684853789

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