The End of the Hamptons
Subtitle: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: May 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780814719589
Subjects: Social History; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History: World; Hamptons (N.Y.); History - U.S.; Social life and customs; New York; Social Classes; General; History; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural
First sentence: The post-9/11 flood of migrants from New York City to the Hamptons may have made local news, but it certainly was not the first time that signs of urban danger or decay inspired metropolitans to seek the more peaceful, bucolic landscapes of Long Island's East End.