Bobos in Paradise (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: David Brooks
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Psychology, sociology, and anthropology
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Middle classes, Upper classes, Popular culture, Bohemianism, Materialism, Counterculture, United States
- Locales: United States
David Brooks is a senior editor of the Weekly Standard. He also writes on various facets of culture and politics for publications such as The New Yorker, and has worked as a correspondent and editor of The Wall Street Journal. This is his first book.
Bobos in Paradise is a pop treatise on the United States’ upper class of the new millennium. The book draws together and expands on several shorter essays that Brooks wrote for the Weekly Standard. Those essays took an irreverent, occasionally bemused look at certain developments from the new...
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