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If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently been hurled at&...

Alf Bruseth, Politician Coin Bank (1938). Index of American Design If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around …

Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?

Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?

The Society of St. Tammany was the name given to a powerful political machine that essentially ran New York City throughout much of the 19th century. The organization reached a peak of notoriety in the decade following the Civil War when it harbored "The Ring," the corrupted political organization of Boss Tweed.

Jay Gould, original name Jason Gould, (born May 27, 1836, Roxbury, New York, U.S.—died December 2, 1892, New York, New York), American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous “robber barons” of 19th-century American capitalism. Gould was educated in local schools and first worked as a surveyor in New York state. He then operated a tannery, and by 1859 he had begun speculating in the securities of small railways. H...

Boss Tweedborn—William Magear Tweed—and the "Tweed Ring" comprised of 20 aldermen and 20 assistant alderman in Tamanay Hall dominated New York politics for profit in the second half of the 1800s.

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