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A True Story of Defiance and Courage
Grand Central Publishing
February 2009
On Sale: January 26, 2009
416 pages
ISBN: 0446508624
EAN: 9780446508629
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 was able to turn
it into a home that was important to her, a home that
represented her new found independence. Little did she 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 fourteen
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 one woman led
the charge to take on corporate America to save her home.
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