{"title":"Dylan Gottlieb","description":"\u003cp\u003eDylan Gottlieb offers insightful explorations into social and cultural history, weaving narratives that illuminate the complexities of modern life. With a focus on nuanced perspectives, his work captures the dynamics of influential groups and historical shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect engaging, thought-provoking accounts that bridge personal experience and broader societal developments, particularly within the realms of history and military affairs. His writing invites reflection on the forces shaping contemporary identity and power structures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"yuppies-by-dylan-gottlieb-9780674248977","title":"Yuppies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic: a wave of hundreds of thousands of highly educated young professionals that washed over New York during that decade. As Wall Street moved to the centre of American life, it drew a generation of young people into its vortex. For the first time, banks recruited roughly one-third of graduating classes from top universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmerica’s economy had a new main character. Young bankers extracted profits from waning industries, shattering the foundations on which stable middle-class employment had long rested. Yuppie lawyers devised deals and tax strategies that eroded workers’ power and wages. As consumers, yuppies created new cultures of fitness and of excess, popularising marathon running and fine dining as status markers. As city-dwellers, they were pioneers of gentrification. And as voters and political donors, yuppies engineered a takeover of local and national government, using their wealth to back candidates who would remake the country in their image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYuppies\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that we still live in the shadow of the greed-is-good 1980s: Our cities are playgrounds for the wealthy, and Wall Street and Washington remain locked in a tight embrace. Dylan Gottlieb’s exquisite recounting leaves no doubt that the yuppie takeover of New York began a more unequal chapter in American life—one we continue writing today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650601173228,"sku":"9780674248977","price":74.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674248977-yuppies.jpg?v=1779329495"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/dylan-gottlieb.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}