Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World’s Largest Casino

“The book seems at times like a legal thriller, a psychological drama, a morality tale, and a scandal sheet.” — Richard Tambling, Hartford Journal Inquirer Jeff Benedict, the author of  No Bone Unturned , tracks the transformation of the Mashantucket Pequots from a population of one on 214 miserable acres in the early 1970s to today’s largest landowner in Connecticut. Led by a former laborer, Tribal Chairman Richard “Skip” Hayward, the Pequots have become the wealthiest, most politically influential Indian tribe in the United States. In  Without Reservation , Benedict exposes startling revelations about the tribe and their casino, Foxwoods.