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

ISBN-13: 9780684853789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str.

David Brooks

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Janet Maslin The New York Times Delectable...a tartly amusing, all too accurate guide to the new establishment.

Spis treści

Contents

Introduction

1 - The Rise of the Educated Class

2 - Consumption

3 - Business Life

4 - Intellectual Life

5 - Pleasure

6 - Spiritual Life

7 - Politics and Beyond

Acknowledgments

Index

O autorze

David Brooks is a senior editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD and a contributing editor at NEWSWEEK. Formerly a reporter and editor at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, he's had articles in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST and other publications.