Roy Mitchell's Reviews > Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

I've always had this nagging feeling that I live in the dust of some great thing which has very recently become unserviceable. We all live with creeping unease about "the state of things". There is an increasingly visible difference between the way painted faces on our screens talk about America and the way it actually is. No longer maintained is the veneer which conceals a rotting imperial corpse slowly eating itself.
This book documents the activities of boomers after they finish college. Referred to as yuppies, short for young urban professionals. As a group they psychotically decide to strip the copper out of America's walls because they want money instead of a functional society. Half a century later they all live in mcmansions and their legacy is to have turned America into a strip mall parking lot.
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