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The Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Return to normalcy today, though likely only a

temporary one. Two guests, both historians. Dylan Gottlie will talk about yuppies, who are big in the

news 40 years ago, and Ervond Abrahamihan, historian of Iran will talk about the war, Trump's

ludicrous misunderstandings of the country, and the general political scene there. Yuppies were a big thing

once. They got a lot of press in the 1980s with their red suspenders for the men and power suits for the

women, working in finance and law as the rank and file the financial revolution of that decade.

Not only did they transform the economic landscape, their cultural practices like jogging

and culinary adventurism proliferated throughout American society.

The salience they enjoyed in the 1980s receded, not so much because all that disappeared,

but because it became so ordinary.

Where exactly did they come from?

What did they do?

And what was their lasting influence?

These are the questions

explored by Dylan Gottlieb and his new book, Yuppies, the bankers, lawyers, joggers, and gourmans who

conquered New York to be published any day now by Harvard University Press. He's an assistant

professor of history of Bentley University in Walton, Massachusetts. Dylan Gottlieb. Reading your book,

I was reminded of that N-plus-1 magazine pamphlet

from 2010, what was the hipster? I think I have to ask, what was the yuppie? Well, the yuppie

in our imagination and in the popular stereotypes of the 1980s was exactly that, a stereotype.

You saw them caricatured, say, on the cover of Newsweek,

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