''The House That Ate The Hamptons'' is a novel based on the controversy surrounding the construction of billionaire
Ira Rennert's mansion in
Sagaponack, New York
Sagaponack is a village in the Town of Southampton in Suffolk County, on the East End of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population of the village was 313 at the 2010 census.
Sagaponack is also the name of a popular seafood resta ...
.
The novel's author,
James Brady
James Scott Brady (August 29, 1940 – August 4, 2014) was an American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the seventeenth White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. In 1981, Brady b ...
, was a magazine writer with columns in ''
Parade
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'' magazine and ''
Advertising Age''. He was also a part-time
Hamptons resident.
Sources
''The House that Ate the Hamptons'' James Brady
* ''The New York Times'', December 18, 2008
External links
*''The Daily Telegraph'', 5 June 2001, 'Long Island: Heading for the Hamptons'
2000 American novels
Novels set in Long Island
Southampton (town), New York
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