Thomas Cole's "Course of the Empire" series
http://www.isu.edu/~wattron/OLCole2c.html
Cole chose something from Byron to help describe this work:
There is the moral of all human tales;
'This but the same reheasal of the past
First Freedom, and then Glory: when that fails
Wealth, vice, corruption
Niall Ferguson just wrote " Complexity and Collapse", using Cole's painting to muse about the fate of American Empire.
http://laudyms.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/niall-ferguson-complexity-and-collapse/
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