Name: Tom McGrath | Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Start: 2024-06-25T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19103

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

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In conversation with Will Bunch, National Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The former editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine, Tom McGrath also served as chief content officer of Metro Corp., the parent company of Philadelphia and Boston magazines between 2010 and 2020. During this time, the two publications won more than fifty awards for editorial excellence. In 2022, McGrath earned the Writer of the Year award at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards. He is the author of MTV: The Making of a Revolution and, with John Basedow, coauthor of Fitness Made Simple. Referred to as “highly readable, highly enjoyable” by New York Times bestselling author William Cohan, Triumph of the Yuppies is a chronicle of the rise, reign, and seeming fall of the generation of young urban professionals whose obsession with materialism, work, and status came to define and embody many of the ugliest aspects of 1980s America.
Will Bunch is the national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the author of 2022's After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics, and How to Fix It, which was featured on NPR's Fresh Air, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and the New York Times Book Review. He's also written books about the legacy of Ronald Reagan and the rise of the Tea Party movement. He has won numerous journalism awards and was a key member of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize at New York Newsday in 1992.
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