The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise

Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology. In this absorbing account of New York's famous vacation playground, Corey Dolgon goes beyond the celebrity tales and polo games to tell us the story of this complex and contentious land. 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 Manhattanites who now want to live there year-round, the story of the Hamptons is a vicious cycle of supposed paradise lost. Drawing on this fabled land's history, The End

Waves upon the shore : coming to the Hamptons from the earliest times to the 1970s -- Houses in the fields : New York Cit moves East -- Peconic County now! : whose quality of life is it anyway? -- Polo ponies and penalty kicks : sports on the east end -- The other Hamptons : race and class in America's paradise -- From clam beds to casinos : the enduring battle over Native American land rights