Harold and Erica go to good schools, and pass through a series of haute bourgeois jobs museum curator, freelance consultant, corporate marketing functionary, author of mid-list historical biographies until, finally, the hyper-achieving Erica arrives as the chief executive of a cable company, and the ponderous Harold scores a sinecure at a neocon think tank, where he pastes David Brooks opinion columns into papers on public policy.

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