Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
When thousands of young professionals took over Wall Street in the 1980s, the world of economics shifted. Dylan Gottlieb chronicles the lasting effects of that cultural and political transformation that are still felt today.
How 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.
Yuppies 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 center of American life, it drew a generation of young people in...











