Yuppies

A fascinating read for anyone interested in yuppie culture and how the demographic affected New York City, in particular, and the country as a whole. -- Amanda Ray * Library Journal * Readers who wish to immerse themselves in sights and sounds of 1980s New York…will find in Gottlieb a knowledgeable and witty tour guide. -- Joel Harold Tannenbaum * Orange Blossom Ordinary * A most excellent romp through recent New York history. Dylan Gottlieb's fascinating Yuppies brings to life for a new generation of readers what constituted a proud yuppie existence like my own: an Upper West Side apartment, a Wall Street investment banking job, finishing the New York Marathon, fanatically shopping at Dean & DeLuca. -- William D. Cohan, author of <i>House of Cards</i> and <i>Power Failure</i> Dylan Gottlieb has given us a brilliant account of the transformation of New York City in the late years of the twentieth century. Original, compelling, and written with wry humor, Yuppies offers a vision of what was gained as well as what was lost in New York through the rise of finance. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of <i>Fear City</i> Gottlieb vividly demonstrates how the yuppie was not some passing 1980s trend but a historical phenomenon that radically reshaped our economic, cultural, and political landscapes. If you want to know how we ended up where we are today, read this fascinating, revelatory book. -- Paulina Bren, author of <i>The Barbizon and She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street</i> At last, the social history of financialization has been written. No one seriously studying this period of US history will be able to ignore Yuppies, which will also appeal to general readers. -- Jonathan Levy, author of <i>Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States</i>