A cropped image of the cover of Dylan Gottlieb's book on yuppies.

Author Talk: Dylan Gottlieb

Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

 

Thursday October 8 2026
Soda House Auditorium
Registration via Eventbrite

The first author talk of the fall on Thursday October 8 will be offered by Dylan Gottlieb on his new book, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. As finance transformed the American economy in the 1980s, so too did the Yuppies help create the country we have today. Drawn from Ivy League schools to New York by high salaries and engaging lifestyles, Yuppies staffed the banks that extracted profits from firms in waning industries and devised the deals that eroded workers’ power and wages. As consumers, yuppies created new cultures of fitness and of excess, popularizing marathon running and fine dining as status markers. Dylan Gottlieb’s book Yuppies will remind us that we still live in the shadow of the world they helped to create.

 

Dylan Gottlieb. A man with brown hair and a beard stand in front of some trees. He is wearing an oxford cloth shirt with a button-down collar.Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University.


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