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Triumph of the Yuppies

America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
  • Tom McGrath
2024
Grand Central Publishing

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Featured Excerpts

  • Bruce Springsteen on July 19, 1988 at his concert in East Berlin on the cycle track Weissensee.
    Book Review

    Can the 1980s Explain 2024?

    The yuppies embodied the winning side of America’s deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind.
    by Nicholas Lemann via Washington Monthly on August 25, 2024
  • A yuppie surrounded by money and luxury items.
    Book Review

    When Yuppies Ruled

    Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the young urban professional tell us about our own?
    by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 22, 2024
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