In his history of the National Geographic Society, founded in 1888, Robert Poole presents a plausible case for nepotism. He shows how five generations of a public-spirited family, "a proud and private New England clan", converted a boring academic journal into an internationally loved magazine, one with millions of loyal subscribers. His real starting point is not 1888 but 1898, the year that the National Geographic Society came under the control of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Bell also happened to be the son-in-law of the society's founder, and the main asset that he acquired from his father-in-law was the magazine. It then had a circulation of around 1,000, which the inventor was determined markedly to increase.
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机译：罗伯特·普尔（Robert Poole）在其1888年成立的国家地理学会（National Geographic Society）历史中提出了裙带关系的合理案例。他展示了一个由五代人组成的公共事业家庭-“一个自豪而又私密的新英格兰氏族”-如何将一本无聊的学术期刊转变为一本国际上最受欢迎的杂志，其中有数百万忠实的订阅者。他的真正起点不是1888年，而是1898年，即国家地理学会受电话发明者亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔（Alexander Graham Bell）掌控的那一年。贝尔也恰好是该协会创始人的岳母，而他从岳父那里获得的主要资产是杂志。然后，它的流通量约为1,000，发明者被确定明显增加了流通量。
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