What is a BOBO? Is it a clown? An obscure bird? An Acronym? Well, a BOBO is what David Brooks, author of BOBOS In Paradise, calls a bourgeois bohemian. A BOBO is what you would call the upper class of today. In his book, Brooks defines a BOBO and provides detailed information on what a BOBO does, how a BOBO lives, and where a BOBO plays. So, we know from the jacket that a BOBO …showed first 75 words of 677 total…

…showed last 75 words of 677 total…of the BOBOS I have come across in my lifetime. Working in Newport Beach, CA as a teenager and just growing up in Orange County, CA---I’ve known what a BOBO is for a while now, but I did not quite have a term for these kind of people. BOBOS in Paradise is a good read because it explains today’s upper class, and explores how today’s upper class became what it is today.