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Book SynopsisFrom polo players to migrant workers, an inside peek at one of America's most exclusive communities.
Trade Review"Delicious and intellectually nutritious as a Montauk seafood fiesta. Sharp and as jolting as the jitney journey from Manhattan, it is perfect beach reading, or enticing fodder for the downtime of long winters." -- Neil Smith,author of American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
"Takes us beyond the much-romanticized beaches of Long Island to the rich entrepreneurs and their McMansions, the Latino workers, and the stubborn indigenous residents refusing to disappear. The book is important because it is in so many ways a microcosm of the nation." -- Howard Zinn,author of A People's History of the United States
"This superb book focuses on current controversies in the Hamptons. . . . Dolgons treatment of these issues is carefully researched, richly detailed, and original, and presented in a beautifully clear narrative." -- David Halle * Contemporary Sociology *
"Dolgon tells a history that is balanced and agenda-free" * Foreword Magazine *
"[A] very good book. It offers the reader an insightful political-economic analysis of eastern Long Island's microcosm of a class and ethnically divided society. . . . This is a fascinating book for scholars interested in how all these factors play out in a fabled locality." * Antipode, Susan S. Fainstein,Columbia University *
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Spending Time in the Hamptons 1 Waves upon the Shore: Coming to the Hamptons from the Earliest Times to the 1970s 2 Houses in the Fields: New York City Moves East 3 Peconic County Now! Whose Quality of Life Is It Anyway? 4 Polo Ponies and Penalty Kicks: Sports on the East End 5 The Other Hamptons: Race and Class in America's Paradise 6 From Clam Beds to Casinos: The Enduring Battle over Native American Land Rights Epilogue NotesBibliography Index About the Author
