Little Pink House
Subtitle: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
By: Jeff Benedict.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780446508629
Subjects: Kelo, Susette -- Trials, litigation ,etc; Eminent domain -- Connecticut -- Cases; Eminent domain -- United States -- Cases
Genres: Trials, litigation ,etc.; Cases.
Description: Susette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased an old house perched on the waterfront in New London, Conn. It wasn't fancy, but with hard work she was able to turn it into a home that was important to her. Little did she know that the City of New London, desperate to revive its flailing economy, wanted to raze her house and others along the waterfront in order to win a lucrative Pfizer pharmaceutical contract that would bring new business into the city. Kelo and fourteen neighbors refused to sell, so the city decided to exercise its power of eminent domain to condemn their homes, launching a case that ultimately reached the Supreme Court. Investigative journalist Jeff Benedict takes us behind the scenes of this case, and Kelo speaks for the first time about how one woman took on corporate America to save her home.--From publisher description.