Word: hamilton
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...Wiliiamsburg, George Washington nurtured his friendships with Virginia's revolutionary leaders, and took military commissions that sent him to the frontier in the French and Indian War. Did Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, beset by European complaints about burgeoning U.S. deficits, know that his earliest counterpart, Alexander Hamilton, commanded the bayonet attack on the British redoubts at Yorktown, only 13 miles from Wiliiamsburg, in the decisive battle of the Revolution...
...need of an extended vacation, but at the age of 48 his mid-life crisis has led to more than a sabbatical. This week, after more than two decades away from medicine, he is returning to research in clinical psychology, as a fellow at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. His goal, he explains, is to create something of permanence. Says he: "I am tired of making a soap bubble, watching it shine with iridescence, then having it explode while I am left with a soapy scum to say plaintively, 'You should have been here a moment...
There is a usually unspoken professional admiration between the masters of such analysis and the masters of the fabrications. In his revealing account, Great Forgers and Famous Fakes, Autograph Dealer Hamilton quotes a letter from Forger Arthur Sutton, whom Hamilton had helped to expose, causing Sutton to plead guilty to fraud. "I have always had the greatest respect for you," wrote Sutton, who crafted the signatures of famous figures from Sitting Bull to Richard Nixon and Marilyn Monroe. "I am glad I have been caught and can promise I will never forge any autographs ever again." Admitted Hamilton...
...Charles Hamilton, the U.S.'s largest dealer in Nazi mementos, spots one or two fakes a month among the thousands of Third Reich items he handles every year. Many are signed photos of Hitler, which, if genuine, are worth from $350 to $ 1,000 to collectors. Such photo forgeries are often simple to detect because Hitler rarely signed a picture unless it had been taken by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, who stamped a distinctive seal on his photos...
Will the exposure of the phony Hitler diaries and other forgeries of Nazi mementos deter buyers? Hamilton thinks not. "Evil seems sexy," he observes. The world's estimated 50,000 collectors of Naziana, he says, find "the monstrosity and evil of Nazism to be strangely exciting...