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Right on the low road.(Book Review)

American Prospect, The,  July, 2004  by Bennett, Drake

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THE CHEATING CULTURE: WHY MORE AMERICANS ARE DOING WRONG TO GET AHEAD BY DAVID CALLAHAN * HARCOURT * 353 PAGES * $26.00

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FEW DECISIONS CAUSED GEORGE WASHington more agony than whether or not to accept some canal-company shares that the Virginia General Assembly offered him in 1784. The gift was perfectly legal, and such signs of appreciation were commonplace in the early republic. Washington was a private citizen at the time (a somewhat cash-strapped one at that) and had always been a great champion of the canal system, but he couldn't abide the thought that his acceptance might ...

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