Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

By: McGrath, Tom

The "entertaining and insightful" first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich).

By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies--the elite, uber-educated faction of the Baby Boom generation--had become a cultural punchline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538725991
• ISBN13: 9781538725993
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"