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Bobos in Paradise  by David Brooks





Bobos in Paradise

by David Brooks
Simon & Schuster; April 2000


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Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks is an irreverent yet serious examination of today's new upper class. According to Brooks, Bobos are an awkward combination of bohemian and bourgeois trying to merge counter-cultural sixties values with over-achieving eighties accomplishments.

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