Beyond the Gilded Age | Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina Chronicles Palm Beach’s Social Shift

Beyond the Gilded Age: In his article, “The Fresh Faces of Palm Beach: Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina Chronicles Palm Beach’s Social Shift,” Dr. Della-Giustina points at extensive changes in the social life of Palm Beach. Moving to the CREW in the early 1980s, he had to live in a world that was dominated by WASP and had to challenge this culture as an Italian American commissioner. Trump brought over the change with his acquisition of Mar-a-Lago made the doors slowly open to let in people of color and broke the traditional cultural stereotype of Palm Beach. Dr. Della-Giustina provides information on how this change provoked joyous and unhappy events; the case of structuring Palm Beach from the period of being one of the most elite towns into a more diverse society of the modern age.