Robert Steele, a former U.S. Congressman, has written a fictional account of tribal gaming in “The Curse – Big-Time Gambling’s Seduction of a Small New England Town."
Steele, who served two terms in Congress, lived in southeastern Connecticut before the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal
Nation and the Mohegan
Tribe built their casinos. He said gaming has had a negative impact.
“I watched the political maneuvering. I watched the building of the casinos and the impact on the region,” Steele told The New Haven Register.
The novel is fiction but it includes some historical elements.
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