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Jan 1, 2000 · 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.
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There is a book by American conservative political commentator David Brooks. It was first published in 2000.
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Dec 19, 2001 · Powers ends by explaining how one day, out of the blue, The New York Times called and plucked her from her safe SF Weekly haven as chronicler of her alt-rock communities. This Cinderella story (and now Simon & Schuster's publication of her book) is evidence for Brooks's contention that bobos and bourgies have merged.
Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s. But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America.
May 1, 2000 · Brooks, an editor at the conservative Weekly Standard and at Newsweek and an NPR commentator, argues that this longstanding paradigm has been eroded by the merging of bohemians and bourgeoisie into a new cultural, intellectual and financial elite: the "bobos."
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and how They Got There. David Brooks. Thorndike Press, 2001 - Social Science - 404 pages. It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the...
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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.
- David Brooks
