Book 24 Apr 2009 09:52 am
The Little Pink House
Here is a book definitely a book worthy of being read- slowly, quickly, with enthusiasm, with tears and tissues, however you read. READ THIS BOOK.
Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage by Jeff Benedict was PHENOMENAL.
Susette Kelo wants a home. She has had a hard life and wants something of her OWN. She finds the perfect house right on the waterfront in New London and is happy.
Then everything changed. This book is the amazing and shocking journey that Susette goes through. It starts on 8 East Street in New London and goes all the way to the US Supreme Court.
This is the starred Publisher’s Weekly review.
Benedict has taken a complicated court case centered on eminent domain and turned it into a page-turner with a conscience. In 1997, an EMT named Susette Kelo left her husband, bought a cottage and started over in the economically depressed Ft. Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn. In February 1998, the New London Development Corporation began trying to muscle the neighborhood into selling homes to make way for a Pfizer research complex. Benedict’s passionate account is rife with heroes and villains – he delights in pillorying Kelo’s foil, Claire Gaudiana, the president of Connecticut College who lured Pfizer to consider New London. The fight escalated when the city tried exercising eminent domain to seize the homes of Kelo and others who refused to sell, leading to the case, Kelo v. the City of New London, reaching the Supreme Court in 2005. Raising important questions about the use of economic development as a justification for displacing citizens, this book will leave readers indignant and inspired.â€
Here is a YouTube video from his site.
This is an IMPORTANT book to read. Eminent Domain is changing. The Kelo vs New London case shows this. So everyone, please read this book, and go to www.JeffBenedict.com for even more information and reviews.
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