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Political Corruption. By Debra A. Miller. Detroit, Mich.: Lucent Books Thomson Gale, 2007. 1 vol. 112 p. $32.45. ISBN 978-1-59018-982-5.

This brief introduction to corruption spares no one pointing out the problems of Democrats and Republicans and past and present players in the corruption game. War seems to bring out the worst in people and companies. The Teapot Dome scandal concerning the leasing of oil fields has a sense of relationship with present day contracts to Halliburton in the Middle East. Chapter titles include "The Problem of Political Corruption," "Political Corruption in America," "Money and Political Corruption in the United States," "Political Corruption Around the World," and "Efforts to Curb Political Corruption."