Tuxedo Park

Tuxedo parkIn the nonfiction book, The Wee Wah Beach Club in Tuxedo Park: An American Story of Social Change, 1966 Boston College graduate Stuart McGregor explores the history of an enclave for the wealthy of New York City that was established in 1886. Tuxedo Park was a recreational community historically occupied by those who built their mansions on 5th Avenue in New York City and Newport, and still exists today as a gated community. McGregor questions if U.S is heading into a new Gilded Age, where a there is significant disparity between the ultra-rich and other Americans.

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