Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation - Hardcoverby Tom McGrath (Author) The "entertaining and insightful" first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies the elite, uber educated faction of the Baby Boom generation had become a cultural