"Dozens of books have examined this phenomenon. None I have yet seen does it with this anger, vigor and
persuasiveness."
--Baltimore Sun
"The author provides persuasive evidence that our society is riddled with dishonesty."
--Deseret Morning News
"A damning and persuasive critique of America's new economic life."
--Esquire
"On-target analysis of how this noxious and, in the true sense, un-American corruption came to infect our
culture."
--Los Angeles Times
Publisher Web Site, December, 2004
Summary
Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many
of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now?
Callahan blames the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the past twenty years: An unfettered market and unprecedented
economic inequality have corroded our values and threaten to corrupt the equal opportunity we cherish. Callahan's
"Winning Class" has created a separate moral reality where it cheats without consequences-while the "Anxious
Class" believes choosing not to cheat could cancel its only shot at success in a winner-take-all world.
Updated with a new afterword analyzing the latest on cheating from the Martha Stewart trial to the Tyco and Enron
sentencings, The Cheating Culture takes us on a gripping tour of cheating in America and makes a powerful case
for why it matters.
