A reader highly recommends Jeff Benedict’s Little Pink House about the New London eminent domain case:
I just finished reading this book – I swear, I am just a regular (non American) reader and I think you should read it and/or plug it.Little Pink House by Jeff Benedict – it’s about eminent domain with the Kelo Case in New London. I just think it’s brilliantly written, in such a compelling way, I could not even put it down. I swear I am just an interested reader, and nothing to do with publishing or e. It’s recently come out in hardback, and he has already done his ‘tour’ of Greenwich, (which I missed) but the library has 4 copies or so (one of which I just returned to Cos Cob). Not only does it cover the way that American government assumes a right to everything and anything (ok, I’m biased being European), but it reveals some aspects of the lives of Chris Dodd, Jodi Rell and many more. I think particularly as a Connecticut resident, it is utterly fascinating. The reviews for this book are incredible and with it being so pertinent to CT real estate, I figured you could do with the ‘filler’ – and maybe a good read, given there’s nothing much else going on in the neighborhood! I plan to read one of his other books about Indian Reservations next, this was utterly gripping.
Benedict is the author of a previous, well-written and absorbing book on how gambling came to Connecticut (with the corrupt cooperation of Lowell Weiker) called “Without Reservation”. I relied heavily on that book when researching my own, (much, much funnier, he said) book on Indians, casinos and Tod’s Point, “Greenwich Mean Time”. Benedict’s a good writer and a fascinating one – I’m funnier – or I like to think so.