Founders -- A parade -- A Chekhov play by Duerrenmatt -- Eastern origins -- The power of ideas -- Founding fathers -- Beggars with dreams -- Innocents at home -- Two sons -- An open wound -- Living dangerously -- Fathers and sons -- The political style -- In a small country
Summary
Elon juxtaposes the generations of the Founders and the Sons, the innocent idealists and the pragmatic realists. The Israelis is an original, well-documented and dramatic account of past and present. His sources are frequently poets and novelists rather than politicians, whom he often mistrusts
