Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Fearon, Peter

Published by A Birch Lane Press Book / Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1998

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As new condition textured light blue boards with gold spine lettering contained in a non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Just Another Weekend in the Hamptons; Epilogue: Quo Vadis Hamptonites?; Sources; and Index. Illustrated with three sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. "From Westhampton to Montauk, the towns, villages, and hamlets of Long Island's fabulous South Fork have become known as the Hamptons - America's Riviera. The people who flock to it every summer have made the Hamptons the world's wealthiest resort. From the earliest hint of spring to the last leaves of autumn, the Hamptons are a magnet for old money and nouveau mega-riche, Hollywood stars and Wall Street titans, polo-playing princes and husband hunters, models on the make and trophy wives, and a collection of artists, writers, musicians, and thousands of others who want to bask in reflected glamour. Hamptons Babylon is the story of the underside of America's richest playground - a story of greed, sex, drugs, and murder against a background of conspicuous wealth and extraordinary ostentation; a peek beyond the high walls and hedges at the super-rich at play. Among the highlights: The Hamptons childhood of Jackie Onassis - why it left the future first lady irreparably scarred and shaped her entire life; Why the dark shadows of the past drew her sister, Lee Radziwill, to return to the Hamptons to live, after a twenty-year absence and a long battle with alcohol; Marilyn Monroe's Hamptons love affair with a stranger and her tumultuous Hamptons summer with her husband, Arthur Miller; How abstract-expressionist legend Jackson Pollock created multimillion-dollar masterpieces in his Hamptons studio by urinating on canvases while roaring drunk - and the story of how he really died; Why Nobel laureate John Steinbeck used his Hamptons home as headquarters for an ill-conceived campaign to promote the Vietnam War at the height of the antiwar movement; Truman Capote's pathetic last days in the Hamptons, ostracized by the people he betrayed and by the socialite he literally hounded to death for calling him "a fag"; The Hamptons heiress who stored her murdered husband's body in the attic for months; The serial rapist who preyed on women in the Hamptons until Godfather author Mario Puzo precipitated his capture; The Hamptons millionaire who used his mansion to stage videotaped orgies; The tug of war over millions of dollars worth of paintings by Willem de Kooning; The Hamptons are dealer a top prosecutor claims got away with murder; The bizarre deathbed divorce of one of the Hamptons' richest power couples and the family feud over a $20 miliion legacy; The world's most exclusive school built around the needs of a single pupil; The Hamptons sojourn of Versace assassin Andrew Cunanan and why his violence spread panic among the Hamptons' richest residents; And the private Hamptons days and nights of Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Andy Warhol, Christie Brinkley, Billy Joel, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart, Ron Perelman, and many others. Hamptons Babylon will amuse and shock you. It is a nonstop page-turner." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 006084

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich ...

Publisher: A Birch Lane Press Book / Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, New Jersey

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition