The cheating culture: why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead

of Manhattan-based public policy think-tank Demos, demonstrates how cheating has infested American life. Callahan draws from recent newspaper articles, industry reports, and nationwide surveys to document professional athletes’ use of performance-enhancing steroids, reporters’ disguise of fiction as journalism, physicians’ promotion of drugs of questionable efficacy in exchange for payments from pharmaceutical companies, students’ cheating on exams and submitting plagiarized work, and music fans’ piracy of CDs on the internet, as well as theft by employees and high-stakes corporate crime.