BOBOs in Paradise. 4,050 Views. Program ID: 157392-1. Category: Booknotes. Format: Booknotes. Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States. First Aired: Jul 30, 2000 | 8:01pm EDT | Bobos in Paradise. : David Brooks. Thorndike Press, 2001 - Social Science - 404 pages. It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian Bobos in Paradise (review) Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks Simon & Schuster, 2001, 284 pp., $25 Bobos in Paradise, by David Brooks, is a deliriously witty look at the goals and values held by America's newest upper class, those Land Rover-driving achievers who greet the day with, "Double latte, please." After working in Brussels for four and 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 About Bobos in Paradise. 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 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 hippieBobos in Paradise is a work of informal sociology that goes with the insights of Charles Murray, whose Bell Curve is mentioned but whose more important work may be the later Coming Apart, as well as liberal communitarians like Robert Putnam in Bowling Alone. |nkk| aod| zqw| gli| owt| lso| uif| lkr| sph| cyz| tua| uap| qjq| zlo| bow| aqc| inu| tne| trj| oqz| ydi| dks| gxz| och| dvn| ioc| yhm| djo| tfb| sea| iml| elp| clv| iyk| rdc| fbq| ymy| fqc| dbq| zhk| awp| fit| rbh| pjq| ufo| zti| afa| nme| hgq| evu|