Description: Yuppies returns to 1980s New York, when a generation of young bankers, lawyers, and gentrifiers rebuilt the city, and the country, on massively unequal terms. Through their work, their lifestyles, and their politics, yuppies cemented Wall Street's takeover of American life and secured their place atop a brutal economic hierarchy.
Brief description: Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University. A cohost of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, he has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Gotham, the Journal of American History, and Public Seminar.
Review Quotes: 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 Fear City