Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

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.

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/06/2001
ISBN: 9780684853789
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.42w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 03/02/2001 pg. 63
New York Times 02/25/2001 pg. 28