Yuppies The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York Francine Prose Margaret is newly divorced

Margaret is newly divorced

and the characters were vividly brought to life'

and the daring styles that continue to entertain and inspire today

in their early forties

Yuppies The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York Francine Prose Margaret is newly divorcedBy: Dylan Gottlieb Published by Harvard University Press, 2026 05 12 How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today. Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic: a wave of hundreds of thousands of highly educated young professionals that washed over New York