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The original Secret Empire was founded by a man who had grown tired of being a nobody and wanted to take over the world mostly in order to ensure that history would remember him.Naturally, one Silver Age story set Clayface against the Joker as the two committed crimes in one another's styles entirely to enhance their own infamy and mock their other's. Similarly, Clayface sometimes commits crimes entirely to make himself famous, especially the 'former actor' version of the character.Perhaps his true illness is that he is an Attention Whore through and through. The Joker has practically built a career on crimes designed more to spread his infamy than anything else.In Poison Ivy's first appearance, she goes public after years of successfully committing crimes without ever being noticed, simply to claim the title of 'World Public Enemy #1' from three pretenders (obviously, this was before Characterization Marches On took effect and shifted Ivy from an unrepentant criminal to a mentally unstable ecoterrorist).His name has even found its way into a phrase 'herostratic fame', meaning 'fame at any cost'.

note Well, they actually did such a crappy job at that the result was the complete opposite because people had to know whose name they mustn't utter on pain of death. It's possible some lunatic has already done it in the name of fame.Ī possible Ur-Example Herostratus burned the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus to the ground in 356 BC, hoping his act of arson would get him in the history books, and the Ephesian government failed to defeat him despite all their best efforts to Unperson him.

Quest for infamy prelude serial#

So what better way to end up on TV and go down in history than to commit crimes and do horrible things? Things like arson or other such destruction of famous structures, assassination of public figures, shooting up a school, or becoming a creative Serial Killer with a distinct Calling Card. Not things that deserve fame, but somehow they get at least 15 minutes of it anyway. The book includes forty black-and-white photos throughout the text.Every day, people appear in the news for doing crazy things. Revelatory and definitive, it is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this pivotal event.

With unprecedented access to documents, diaries and letters, and the family’s cooperation, Summers’ and Swan’s search for the truth has taken them far beyond the Kimmel story-to explore claims of duplicity and betrayal in high places in Washington.Ī Matter of Honor is a provocative story of politics and war, of a man willing to sacrifice himself for his country only to be sacrificed himself. Now that they in turn are dead, Kimmel’s grandsons continue the struggle. intelligence secret of the day, they covered it up.įollowing the Admiral’s death, his sons-both Navy veterans-fought on to clear his name. High military and political officials had failed to provide Kimmel and his Army counterpart with vital intelligence.

The evidence against him was less than solid. In the aftermath, Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was relieved of command, accused of negligence and dereliction of duty-publicly disgraced.īut the Admiral defended his actions through eight investigations and for the rest of his long life. The Japanese onslaught on Pearl Harbor on Decemdevastated Americans and precipitated entry into World War II. Roosevelt of the charge that he knew the attack was coming.

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor-and clear President Franklin D.