The King and the Duke.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Exploiting - Brief Article

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...