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Book Description
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 of the Hamptons provides a fascinating portrait of current controversies: the Native Americans fighting over land claims and threatening to build a casino, the environmental activists clashing with the McMansion builders, and the Latino day laborers and working-class natives trying to eke out a living in an ever-increasingly expensive town.
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 of the Hamptons provides a fascinating portrait of current controversies: the Native Americans fighting over land claims and threatening to build a casino, the environmental activists clashing with the McMansion builders, and the Latino day laborers and working-class natives trying to eke out a living in an ever-increasingly expensive town.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Sociologist Dolgon's take on the famous
"second home" summer resort (and increasingly year-round home) on the eastern
end of New York State's Long Island is that it is not simply "an elite, yet
neurotic, theme park for New York City's movers and shakers"; it's also an area
being transformed by newer migrants, especially from Latin America, drawn by
work but priced out of housing and social services—concerns that also affect
local farmers, fishermen, blue-collar workers and the survivors of some
long-settled Indian tribes. Don't look for celebrity gossip, old-timers'
reminiscences, landscape descriptions or juicy historical anecdotes here; the
book is mostly a "clip job," combining information culled from other sources,
such as local papers or some of the many other books and magazine articles on
the area, and there is little original research. Land development is a theme,
but the most interesting chapter concerns regional efforts—strongly but somewhat
dubiously supported by the ever-growing "mover and shaker" element (which
increasingly votes here instead of the city) and so far fruitless—to break away
from neighboring Suffolk Country to form a new "Peconic County." This involves
issues of tax base, "affordable" housing and class, race and income differences
that grow ever more acute. Unfortunately, the information throughout is
chaotically organized and puzzlingly repetitious. 23 b&w illus. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
“This superb book focuses on current controversies in the Hamptons. . . .
Dolgon’s treatment of these issues is carefully researched, richly detailed, and
original, and presented in a beautifully clear narrative.”:
-David Halle,Contemporary Sociology
“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
“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
“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
-David Halle,Contemporary Sociology
“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
“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
“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
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Sociologist Dolgon's take on the famous
"second home" summer resort (and increasingly year-round home) on the eastern
end of New York State's Long Island is that it is not simply "an elite, yet
neurotic, theme park for New York City's movers and shakers"; it's also an area
being transformed by newer migrants, especially from Latin America, drawn by
work but priced out of housing and social services—concerns that also affect
local farmers, fishermen, blue-collar workers and the survivors of some
long-settled Indian tribes. Don't look for celebrity gossip, old-timers'
reminiscences, landscape descriptions or juicy historical anecdotes here; the
book is mostly a "clip job," combining information culled from other sources,
such as local papers or some of the many other books and magazine articles on
the area, and there is little original research. Land development is a theme,
but the most interesting chapter concerns regional efforts—strongly but somewhat
dubiously supported by the ever-growing "mover and shaker" element (which
increasingly votes here instead of the city) and so far fruitless—to break away
from neighboring Suffolk Country to form a new "Peconic County." This involves
issues of tax base, "affordable" housing and class, race and income differences
that grow ever more acute. Unfortunately, the information throughout is
chaotically organized and puzzlingly repetitious. 23 b&w illus. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
“This superb book focuses on current controversies in the Hamptons. . . .
Dolgon’s treatment of these issues is carefully researched, richly detailed, and
original, and presented in a beautifully clear narrative.”:
-David Halle,Contemporary Sociology
“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
“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
“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
-David Halle,Contemporary Sociology
“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
“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
“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
About the Author
Corey Dolgon is associate professor of sociology at Worcester State
College and the editor of Humanity and Society, the Journal of the
Association for Humanist Sociology.
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