Imagining the Past
Title | Imagining the Past PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 1996-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820318108 |
How we make history--and what we then make of it--is engagingly dramatized in T. H. Breen's portrait of a 350-year-old American community faced with the costs of its “progress.” In the particulars of one town's struggle to check development and save its natural environment, Breen shows how our sense of history reflects our ever-changing self-perceptions and hopes for the future. Breen first went to East Hampton, the celebrated Long Island resort town, to write about the Mulford Farmstead, a picturesque saltbox dating from the 1680s. Through his research, he came across a fascinating cast of local characters, past and present, who contributed to, invented, and reinvented the town's history. Breen's work also drew him into contemporary local affairs: factionalism among residents, zoning disputes, and debates over resource management. Driving these heated issues, Breen found, were some dearly held notions about a harmonious, agrarian past that conflicted with what he had come to know about the divisiveness and opportunism of East Hampton's early days. Imagining the Past is about the interplay between some of the East Hampton histories Breen encountered: the “official” histories of many generations, the myths and oral traditions, and the curious stories that Breen, as an outsider, discerned in the town's rich holdings of artifacts and documents. With a warm yet wry regard for human nature, Breen obliges us to confront our pasts in all their complexities and ironies, no matter how unsettling or inconvenient the experience.
East Hampton History
Title | East Hampton History PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannette Edwards Rattray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 682 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Lost Boys of Montauk
Title | The Lost Boys of Montauk PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda M. Fairbanks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2022-05-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982103248 |
"[A] riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island--a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it--and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and friends of the four missing men and, indeed, the entire storied summer community of the Hamptons"--
Almost Paradise
Title | Almost Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Kieran Crowley |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 9780312999131 |
Examines the murder of millionaire Ted Ammon in 2001, discussing the investigation into his volatile marriage to decorator Generosa, the infidelities of both partners, and Generosa's ex-con lover, who may have played a role in the killing.
The Squire of East Hampton
Title | The Squire of East Hampton PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Appel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1989-06-01 |
Genre | Jewish businesspeople |
ISBN | 9780962245909 |
It's Hot in the Hamptons
Title | It's Hot in the Hamptons PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Peterson |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2019-05-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062867385 |
From the author of the summer hit It Happens in The Hamptons comes an unforgettable new novel about the women who live and love in the Hamptons. In the Hamptons, no rules apply, especially in matters of money—and the heart… Raised in East Hampton, Caroline never thought she’d be one of the “city people” who spent summers and weekends at the beach. But, once her husband’s business takes off, a job stint transplants the couple permanently into Manhattan life—where the phrase When you marry for money, you work for it every day, reflects her neighbors’ lives. And where entitled husbands, like hers, embark on affair after affair with little consequence. Time for the wives to get even. When Caroline’s friend Annabelle suggests they experiment as their wayward mates have, Caroline resists at first. That is, until a scroll through an iPad makes her reconsider…and a pact between two friends is made. The agreement quickly turns serious when Caroline begins to confront the man her husband has become, or perhaps always has been. Will a summer affair give Caroline clarity or make her lose hold on the reins of her life? And, when an old lover returns, is she ready to risk all for a chance at happiness…
The Suffragents
Title | The Suffragents PDF eBook |
Author | Brooke Kroeger |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2017-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438466315 |
Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.