Books about the Hamptons

Recommended Books by Category
Fiction	History/Social	Guides/Cookbooks	Illustrated

NON-FICTION
History, Social

The South Fork
Everett Rattray / Published 1989

The Hamptons is more than cocktail parties and Porsches. It is a proud history that goes back about 350 years. Written by the late Everett T. Rattray - former editor of the East Hampton Star - this history, which describes the geologic factors that shaped the South Fork, the Indians, the first English settlers, the American Revolution, the star of the whaling industry, the first railroads, and, much later, the tourists, is embelished with tales remembered from his ancestors.

Amagansett - by Carleton Kelsey and Lucinda Mayo

Amagansett
Carleton Kelsey, Lucinda Mayo / Published 1997

Amagansett is an intimate history of a coastal village whose Dutch and English settlers arrived in 1860 to farm, fish and participate in "ye whale designe," and which is now a colorful part of the Hamptons resort area.

Lucinda Mayo, a local historian as well as a thirteenth-generation descendant of one of the community's four original families, and Carleton Kelsey, village historian for thirty years, have produced a work of vivid images that make Amagansett a unique area.

From Sea to Sea : 350 Years of East Hampton History
Averill Dayton Geus / Published 1999

"This book is truly an epic illustrated chronicle of one of our nation's most unusual town. Through text and explanatory captions, the author presents a balanced and exciting record of the town's development from geologic times to the present in sparkling prose laced with insight and humor."

Philistines at the Hedgerow : Passion and Property in the Hamptons
Steven S. Gaines / Published 1998

A history of shennenigans in the Hamptons, dating back to the original patent granted by King Charles 1st to the English settlers and finishing with the current crop of social climbers and other monied misfits.

Together but Apart : The Jewish Experience in the Hamptons
Abe Frank / Published 1996

This is the story of two orthodox Jews from Lithuania: Israel and Rachel Frank, who in 1906 settled in the Village of Southhampton, New York, founded by Puritans in 1640 and the summerhome of New York society. Without benefit of a rabbi, synagogue or kosher butcher store in a totally Christian environment,they kept their ancient tradition and brought up their six children to be proud Jews and proud Americans too.

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