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In late December 1984, Newsweek declared the year to have been the year of the yuppies.

It was a year in which young urban professionals clad in power suits and obsessed with their

careers, their gadgets and fashionable food

dominated the cultural landscape in America. Four decades later, most people probably think of

Patrick Bateman, the slick, handsome but ultimately evil serial killer from American

psycho when they hear the word yuppy.

But his real life equivalents, who were less murderous but nearly as obsessed with their

looks and possessions,

deserve a closer examination for how they have shaped the United States as it is today.

There is an idea of what yuppies are, an abstraction,

but we want to talk about the real thing.

Tom McGrath is the author of The Triumph of Yuppies America, the 80s,

and the creation of an unequal nation

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