Israel's Frontier Thesis
Walking briskly through the American Capitol last week with several Israeli guests, I paused to consider Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's brilliant rendering of American history, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way." The 1861 oil study shows a wagon train of settlers descending from the Sierra Nevada range to the Golden Gate near what would become San Francisco.
Mise en ligne : 25/07/2005
