New Gilded Age The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence

"[These essays] sit off by themselves and scarcely penetrate the hermetic, gilded universe of the rest of the book. Each essay is finely crafted and engaging. But none was written for this book. Rather, they are occasional pieces of good journalism that now find themselves packaged as an enterprise in high-concept publishing. One need know no more perhaps than that nearly every essay in the book was written sometime between the beginning of 1999 and the end of 2000 to realize that the "Age" referred to in the book's title is really a McAge, a marketing strategy cooked up on the fly, not seriously meant to suggest the depth, duration or complexity of true historic ages, be they iron, gilded or golden."Remnick, David is the author of 'New Gilded Age The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence', published 2001 under ISBN 9780375757150 and ISBN 0375757155.