“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