Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, David BrooksIn his bestselling work of comic sociology, David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo , to describe todays upper classthose who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation. Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media

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even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice

Fisher in journals and letters—some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr

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Cat is drawn to her

Otto takes train after train across Germany

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the chief of Pakistan’s secret police