Little Pink House by Jeff Benedict

Little Pink House by Jeff Benedict

Suzette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased a falling down Victorian house perched on the waterfront in New London, CT. The house wasn't particularly fancy but with lots of hard work Suzette turned it into a home that was important to her, a home that represented her new found independence. What she didn't know that the City of New London, desperate to revive its flailing economy, wanted to raze her house and the others like it that sat along the waterfront in order to win a lucrative Pfizer pharmaceutical contract that would bring new business into the city. Kelo and 14 neighbors flat out refused to sell, so the city decided to exercise its power of eminent domain to condemn their homes, launching one of the most extraordinary legal cases of our time, a case that ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court. In Little Pink House, award-winning investigative journalist Jeff Benedict takes us behind the scenes of this case - indeed, Suzette Kelo speaks for the first time about all the details of this inspirational true story as 1 woman led the charge to take on corporate America to save her home.

* 'Passionate..A page-turner with conscience...will leave readers indignant and inspired. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Jeff Benedict is considered one of America's top investigative journalists. His interests and books have ranged from exposes on the NFL and the NBA to massive corruption with Indian-owned casinos in Connecticut. His work has been published in the New York and LA Times

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ISBN 13	9780446508629
ISBN 10	0446508624
Title	Little Pink House
Author	Jeff Benedict
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2009-01-26
Number of pages	416
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