Bobos In Paradise

Author: David Brooks

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Price : 38.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780684853789
Publisher : schust
Imprint : schust
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Weight (g) : 0.268
Publication date : 20 August 2001
Dimensions : 215mm X 140mm X 18mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : David Brooks
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Dewey classification : 305.55
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Pages : 284
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Description

It used to be easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture, but now the "bos" are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an espresso-sipping artist from a cappucino-gulping banker. Read how the "Bobos" define our age.

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Jonathan Yardley"The Washington Post"Perceptive and amusing. [Brooks] has identified the salient characteristics of this new elite, and he describes them with accuracy and wit.

Author description

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.

The rise of the educated class; consumption; business life; intellectual life; pleasure; spiritual life; politics and beyond.

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