MixedThe Wall Street JournalIn this and many other passages, Cheaters Always Win is too glib to be regarded as meaningful social or political history. What the book really aspires to is a tart comic essay on our putative moral decline, and it abounds in lively if disheartening anecdotes related in vivid language ... While Ms. Fenster grudgingly admires the gifted cheater’s resourcefulness, she detests his morals, seeing cheating as a character flaw. But is it? ... Like so much in this brisk and breezy book, the answer is unconvincing, but the question is fascinating.
