The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead - Softcover

PRAISE FOR KINDRED SPIRITS
"As Americans wrestle with how to fix what has gone wrong in the system of corporate governance, the message that can be taken from Kindred Spirits is that there may be no quick fixes."--The New York Times

"David Callahan gives us an intriguing, incredibly detailed look at the values, work ethic, and creative minds that characterized this group of businessmen."-USA Today
"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

"A breathtaking book."
--Los Angeles Times

"On-target analysis of how this noxious and, in the true sense, un-American corruption came to infect our culture."
--Los Angeles Times

"This should be required reading for every high school and college student, and anyone who's ever complained about how bad things have gotten."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Hair-raising. [P]acked with alarming anecdotes."
--Salon.com

"Highly readable. Callahan has done us a good turn by confronting the question of 'why do Americans do wrong?' "
--Seattle Times

"Callahan's on to something: an ingrained and growing national compulsion to succeed at any cost."
--St. Petersburg Times

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.