{"product_id":"bobos-in-paradise-the-new-upper-class-and-how-they-got-there-1","title":"Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Brooks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780684853772\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e284\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s. \u003cp\u003e But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the countercultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Are you a Bobo? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e Does your newly renovated kitchen look like an aircraft hangar with plumbing? Did you select your new refrigerator on the grounds that mere freezing isn't cold enough?\u003cbr\u003e Would you spend a little more for socially conscious toothpaste -- the kind that doesn't actually kill germs, it just asks them to leave?\u003cbr\u003e Do you work for one of those hip, visionary software companies where everybody comes to work in hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a 400-foot wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot?\u003cbr\u003e Do youthink your educational credentials are just as good as those of the shimmering couples on the \"New York Times\" weddings page?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are probably a member of today's new upper class. Even if you didn't, you'd still better pay attention, because these Bobos define our age. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe. Their status codes govern social life, and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. \"Bobos in Paradise\" is a witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age and a penetrating description of how we live now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There | David Brooks | Hardcover | 9780684853772 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743737","offer_id":48199250411672,"sku":"1743737","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/A1byL0U5dSL.jpg?v=1772550469","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/bobos-in-paradise-the-new-upper-class-and-how-they-got-there-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}