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The King and the Duke
Washington Monthly, Sept, 2005 by Charles Peters
This distinction between not wanting to be a sucker and not wanting to make a sucker out of others helped explain the two sides of the American character. One is the greedy, lying, cheating snake oil salesmen represented by Mark Twain's "The King and the Duke" The other is represented by the down-to-earth common-sensical Huck and Jim, and the decent entrepreneurial Tom.
It is one of the blessings of history that when Hitler threatened the world, our good side was ascendant.
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