Bobos

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By Laura Knoy on Friday, December 29, 2000.
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It used to be easy to tell the bohemians and the bourgeoisie apart, but according to our guest - that's changed. David Brooks' new book is "Bobo's in Paradise: America's New Upper Class and How They Got There." He says 60's counterculture merged with the eighties materialism has created this new upper class.

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