Cheaters Always Win

“If one of your occasional crank rages is that yesterday’s round of golf, your job, that car deal, your marriage, that new reality show, some presidential election…is just way off because someone is cheating, then Fenster has written a book packed with unexpected, hilarious, and sardonic proof that you’re not paranoid at all.”–Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs: Inside America’s Hidden World of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Job Creators
“J. M. Fenster’s new book is every bit as entertaining as it is important, for she tells a dazzling variety of often hilarious stories while brilliantly illuminating an increasingly crucial – like it or not – aspect of the character of almost all of us.”–Frederick E. Allen, former managing editor, American Heritage
“Reading Cheaters Always Win is like listening to a really smart and witty friend tell you things you never knew about a subject you never properly thought through. Educational and fun.”–John Strausbaugh, award-winning author of City of Sedition and Victory City
“Thoroughly entertaining…From the banal marital affair to cutthroat political backbiting, Cheaters Always Win spotlights America’s can’t-quit-you-baby relationship with deception. Wickedly fascinating.”–Daily Beast
“Timely…A lighthearted romp through several centuries of cheating at popular American pursuits.”–Kirkus
“With her trademark panache and wit on fine display, J.M. Fenster brilliantly unmasks the epidemic of casual dishonesty that is corroding our democratic culture and civic life. Cheaters Always Win sparkles with historical vignettes, sardonic humor, and homespun pluck. An elegant page-turner for the ages!”–Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Moonshot and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc

J.M. Fenster is the award-winning author of many works of American history and commentary, including Packard: The Pride, which won several national awards; Ether Day, which won the Anesthesia Foundation prize; the New York Times bestseller Parish Priest with Doug Brinkley; the PBS documentary First Freedom; and the book Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine, which was also a documentary on A&E. After writing The Spirit of Invention at the invitation of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center, she published two works of presidential biography: The Case of Abraham Lincoln and FDR’s Shadow. Fenster has been called “witty” by The New York Times and compared to Mark Twain by The Wall Street Journal. Her most recent book was Jefferson’s America. A graduate of Colgate University, she lives in upstate New York.

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