The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive - Hardcover

Brooks, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451643152 ISBN 13: 9781451643152

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2011

Synopsis

HardCover Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 608 Publisher: Simon & Schuster In hardcover together for the first time New York Times columnist David the ooks's acclaimed bestsellers. Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive with a new introduction by the author David ooks's insightful. engaging. and hilarious observations on the nature of America and Americans have drawn comparisons to those of Malcolm Gladwell and Jerry Seinfeld. Christopher Buckley applauds him as the smart. fun-to-read social critic of his generation. In Bobos in Paradise. ooks coined a term as he explored the ascendance of the bourgeois bohemian-a new generation melding capitalist enterprise with counterculture ...

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Review:

"Brooks is a clever and insightful inspector of the American scene. ... Bobos in Paradise was a well-deserved bestseller. On Paradise Drive is just as funny and perceptive."
--James Q. Wilson, The Wall Street Journal

"Brooks doesn't disappoint the summer armchair vagabond. . . . It's easy to find yourself in his comic descriptions, as Brooks offers hilarious send-ups of every demographic group and lifestyle imaginable. . . . On Paradise Drive is a tour of the American psyche and its myriad manifestations of some considerable and satisfying force. Like his previous bestseller, Bobos in Paradise, many of us, even if not 'bourgeois bohemians,' will enjoy the ride."
--Jeff McCrehan, Christian Science Monitor

“An absolute sparkler of a book, which should establish David Brooks—not that he needs establishing—as the smart, fun-to-read social critic of his generation.” —Christopher Buckley

“A mixture of heartfelt fondness and dead-on-ridicule, animated by an energetic glass-half-full ambivalence. The book is a pleasure, simultaneously bracing and comforting.” –The New York Times Book Review

“A worthy sequel to Bobos, On Paradise Drive is engaging, consistently entertaining and occasionally schizophrenic: In his sweeping assessment of that creature known as ‘the American,’ Brooks pokes with one hand and pats with another.... Brooks is a master satirist.” –Baz Dreisinger, The New York Observer

About the Author:

David Brooks is a senior editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD and a contributing editor at NEWSWEEK. Formerly a reporter and editor at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, he's had articles in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST and other publications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1451643152
• ISBN 13: 9781451643152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608