Sublime

For a second secretary, Washington retained David Humphreys, with his agile pen. Now seasoned by diplomatic experience in Paris with Jefferson, Humphreys advised Washington on questions of etiquette and was anointed chamberlain, or master of ceremonies, for the administration. The third team member was Major William Jackson, an orphan from South

The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.

David Teiger, a New York–based collector in his late seventies.