Go behind the scenes of the Credit Mobilier investigation with Edward Winslow Martin's gripping account. Martin was one of the few journalists who managed to penetrate the secrecy surrounding this notorious financial scandal that implicated high-ranking officials of the Grant administration. This book is a fascinating and timely reminder of the dangers of corruption in politics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.