Bobos in Paradise Questions and Answers
by David Brooks

The book's author, David Brooks, returned to America after living abroad for some years in the 1990s to find that his suburb had dramatically changed. There was a sprinkling of arty cafés, an...

In Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks spends a great deal of time explaining who "bobos" are and examining their idiosyncrasies and excesses. "Bobo" is a portmanteau word, originally French, combining...

In his book Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks describes the rise of a new metropolitan liberal elite. The French word "bobo" is a fusion of "bourgeois" and "bohemian," which, as Brooks points out,...

In Bobos in Paradise, Brooks examines the New York Times wedding page from the 1950s. He finds that "the page was a galaxy of restricted organizations". Jobs were barely mentioned but club...