About this Event
On Thursday October 8 Dylan Gottlieb will give an author talk on his new book, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. As finance transformed the American economy in the 1980s, so too did the Yuppies help create the country we have today. Drawn from Ivy League schools to New York by high salaries and engaging lifestyles, Yuppies staffed the banks that extracted profits from firms in waning industries and devised the deals that eroded workers’ power and wages. As consumers, yuppies created new cultures of fitness and of excess, popularizing marathon running and fine dining as status markers. Dylan Gottlieb’s book Yuppies will remind us that we still live in the shadow of the world they helped to create.
Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University.
Author talks take place in Hagley’s Soda House Auditorium, starting at 7 pm promptly. Please email any questions to Carol Lockman, [email protected].
Event venue & nearby stays
Hagley Soda House, 298 Buck Road, Wilmington, United States
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