The end of the Hamptons
Subtitle: scenes from the class struggle in America's paradise
By: Corey Dolgon.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Hamptons (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.; Hamptons (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.; Hamptons (N.Y.) -- History.
Description: "From Polo players to migrant workers, this book offers an inside look at one of America's most exclusive communities. In this account of New York's famous vacation playground, Corey Dolgon goes beyond the celebrity headlines to tell us the story of this complex and contentious land."

"Dolgon argues that Long Island's East End has a long and tortured past, rife with class struggle between the haves and the have-nots. This turmoil is a direct result of the Hamptons' unique founding and history. As wave after wave of immigrants have settled on the island, a pattern of anxiety and exclusion has risen to the surface, compelling each new group of land owners to spurn the incoming group of potential residents. From the displacement of Native Americans by the Puritans to the first wave of Manhattan elites who built the Summer Colony, to the current infusion of telecommuting, millionaire Manhattanites who now want to live there year-round, the story of the Hamptons is a vicious cycle of supposed paradise lost."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Waves upon the shore : coming to the Hamptons from the earliest times to the 1970s; title: Houses in the fields : New York City moves east; title: Peconic County now! : whose quality of life is it anyway?; title: Polo ponies and penalty kicks : sports on the east end; title: The other Hamptons : race and class in America's paradise; title: From clam beds to casinos : the enduring battle over Native American land rights.