David Brooks | On Paradise Drive: How We Live (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
Recorded Jun 3, 2004
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A native of Wayne, PA, David Brooks is a senior editor of the Weekly Standard, a columnist for the New York Times, a contributing editor the Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." His best-selling book Bobos in Paradise chronicled the rise of the "bourgeois bohemian" class. On Paradise Drive has been called a "work of comic sociology, describing how Americans actually live and behave, and how our odd behaviors have deep cultural roots that define us."
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