Portland Library ~ Adult Summer Reading Program ~ Author Talk

Portland Library presents The Curse:  Big Time Gambling’s Seduction of a Small New England Town

With meticulous research concerning both Connecticut history and the impact of gambling, Robert H. Steele wields historical details with firsthand knowledge of the 1990s gambling expansion to weave a tale of greed, politics and town and tribal conflict set in the fictional town of Sheffield, Connecticut. Robert H. Steele is vice chairman of an international retail marketing agency and has been a director of numerous companies. A graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University, he served in the CIA and Congress, and was a candidate for governor of Connecticut. He lives with his wife in Essex, Connecticut.

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The Adult Summer Reading Program has been funded by the Friends of Portland Library.