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As students, especially American students, we have been taught time and time again of the noble and righteous leaders that this world has seen. Maria Edgeworth, in her first and most successful novel, goes out to prove how wrong we are in assuming this about the leaders of the late 18th century. Through her noble and aristocratic heads of the Rackrent estate, she shows us how both power and money corrupt. She then goes on to disprove any notions we had regardin