Triumph of the yuppies : America, the eighties, and the creation of an unequal nation

"In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the "young urban professionals" who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987. By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies -- the elite, uber educated faction of the Baby Boom generation -- had become something of a cultural punchline. This...