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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"

If Books Could Kill

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The Bohemian and the Bourgeoisie World of Capitalism

The book comes from his observation. The thing that struck me as oddest was the way the old categories no longer made sense. It was now impossible to tell an espresso sipping artist from a cappuccino goping banker. I found that if you investigated people's attitudes towards sex, morality, leisure time and work, it was getting harder and harder to separate the anti-establishment renegade from the pro-establishment company man.

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