Jeff Sharlet

What did __ood government_ really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There__ no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of __onest graft_ were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective__hat of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram__ elite network__anglie didn__ so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn__ opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn__ want to have to break the law to serve them.