Dylan Gottlieb
@dygottlieb.bsky.social
Historian of cities and capitalism || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2026) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social
Prairie Lights, Iowa City, and @dygottlieb.bsky.social and Kate Grandjean sitting next to each other (with Team Kate and Never Thursday writing groups…😍)
Summertime and the listenin' is easy: Charles Ponce de Leon talks Rolling Stone and hip capitalism on WMC this month.
For graduates today, the prospect of starting a career is often tinged with dread. How did white-collar work come to look so bleak? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/1qq_Jf
When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?
In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread.
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To read while awaiting Thursday's Knicks parade: a deep, wise, and totally unexpected YUPPIES write-up in this week's @newyorker.com. .
Great fun to talk YUPPIES (and the Knicks!) on @skippedhistory.bsky.social with Ben Tumin this week. open.spotify.com/episode/6epB...
How Yuppies Conquered New York and Beyond
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I’ve got two books I want to read IMMEDIATELY— both by two amazing historians (and people): @dygottlieb.bsky.social’s Yuppies and Kate Grandjean’s Kingdom of Devils. Very different topics, both fantastic works of history worth reading right now!
Thanks, Paul--what a sharp and generous review. Beers on me next time!
Paul Renfro@renfro.bsky.social · 2mo agoI had the great pleasure of reviewing @dygottlieb.bsky.social’s excellent new book YUPPIES for @newrepublic.com, AND I also had the great pleasure of meeting Dylan at the American Political History Conference last weekend. Congrats again, Dylan! 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/2112...
My friend handed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social a copy of YUPPIES after the @bookculture.com event(!!!) I can die happy.
NEW YORK: come assuage your Knicks angst with me. Tonight at 7pm--Kim Phillips-Fein and I talk YUPPIES at @bookculture.com on 112th.
This one hit on multiple fronts as the child of NYC yuppies (and arguably one myself). Thanks @dygottlieb.bsky.social for your excellent book 📕 and the conversation.
Who Makes Cents?@whomakescents.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe have a very special episode for you this month ft. our very own @Dylan Gottlieb on his new book, Yuppies. Listen as we chat about financialization, the NYC marathon, corporate law, gentrification, Zagat’s guide, and so much more. tinyurl.com/4jv9w98z @harvardpress.bsky.social
In the 1980s, yuppies quickly put their stamp on cities around the country, displacing working class people and remaking the Democratic Party. Historian @dygottlieb.bsky.social examines whether they were drivers of financialization or crucial cogs in the machine. kpfa.org/episode/agai...
Triumph of the Yuppie | KPFA
In the 1980s, yuppies were celebrated in the media and reviled by many others. Working in finance or as management consultants or lawyers, they quickly put their stamp on cities around the country, di...
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Thanks to @annehelen.bsky.social for the great convo about the travails of the professional class (and Peggy from Mad Men!) in today's Culture Study.
Ever wonder how Wall St. got so powerful? Why your urban rent is so expensive? Or why so many young professionals are obsessed with fitness? Come find out on my Reddit AMA on r/AskHistorians--I'll be there talking YUPPIES all morning.
Dylan Gottlieb is author of “Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York". He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the social and political changes Yuppies brought throughout the country.
We’re living in the world the yuppies made - Think
Dylan Gottlieb is author of “Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York". He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the social and political changes Yuppies brought throughout...
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Thanks, @sindap.bsky.social, for a fair-minded (even generous!) review of YUPPIES in the @financialtimes.com today. Yet again underscoring FT > WSJ www.ft.com/content/83aa...
Yuppies by Dylan Gottlieb — the strivers who reinvented New York
1980s Reaganomics required an army of ‘young urban professionals’ who went on to reshape both NYC’s culture and US politics
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This @americanbookseller.bsky.social Independent Press bestseller list ain't quite the @nytimes.com, but at least I'm in good company next to Anton Jaeger. (And only 16 spots behind Franz Fanon lmao)
🚨 🚨 ONLINE TONIGHT: a deep dive into yuppies and the remaking of NYC with the inimitable Sharon Zukin, hosted by @gothamcenter.bsky.social 🚨 🚨 Join us! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...
Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York — The Gotham Center for New York City History
In the 1980s, finance replaced manufacturing as the core of the American economy. This new order gave rise to a new kind of worker, a highly-educated class of young urban professionals, or “yuppies,”...
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Now on @thisguysucked.com: It’s yuppie time with @dygottlieb.bsky.social! You can tell us how much this doesn’t apply to you as you jog past us.
PHILLY: tonight, @brentcebul.bsky.social and I talk yuppies. 6:30pm at Headhouse Books
This is going to be a fun conversation about Dylan's fascinating work. Come join us if you can!
Dylan Gottlieb@dygottlieb.bsky.social · 3mo agoTonight: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and I talk Perrier, jogging, and finance at 6pm at Labyrinth Books.
Tonight: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and I talk Perrier, jogging, and finance at 6pm at Labyrinth Books.
🎉 Today is PUB DAY for YUPPIES 🎉 Join me: 5/12: @harvardbookstore.bsky.social w/ @quinnslobodian.com 5/14: Labyrinth Books w/ @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 5/15: Headhouse Books w/ @brentcebul.bsky.social 5/19: @gothamcenter.bsky.social w/ Sharon Zukin 6/9: @bookculture.com w/ Kim Phillips-Fein
📆 Tues. 5/12 @ 7PM: "Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast" cohost Dylan Gottlieb joins us in store to discuss his new book, "Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York", in conversation with Professor Quinn Slobodian. More info: buff.ly/mVkiFv5
Boston/Cambridge folks: come help me launch YUPPIES with @quinnslobodian.com at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Tomorrow at 7pm
Hey look, it's @dygottlieb.bsky.social in the @bostonglobe.com, interviewed about college, finance, inequality, and how it's all yuppies' fault! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/07/a...
Yuppies were the symptom, not the cause, of some of the ’80s trends we love to hate - The Boston Globe
While pursuing his doctorate at Princeton, Dylan Gottlieb noticed that a large percentage of the undergraduates he taught in history classes were dead set on careers in Wall Street. Rather than lookin...
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In Opinion “Perhaps we were too dismissive of the yuppies. So much of what we take for granted today — from our meritocratic rat race to our gentrified neighborhoods to our culture of overwork, fitness training and foodie obsession — was born in the yuppie-made 1980s,” Dylan Gottlieb writes.
Opinion | Speak, Yuppie
The young urban professionals of the 1980s changed our cities, our politics and our meritocratic work lives.
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