About the Book: In the Realm of the Last Man
One of the Wests most interesting public intellectuals THE TIMES None is more
eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama FINANCIAL TIMES In 1989, one year
before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama-then an early-career
academic who had cut his teeth conducting research for Ronald Reagan during his
years as California governor-delivered a conference paper that would go on to
become one of the most celebrated-and controversial-works of political theory of
our time: The End of History. By 2009, he had broken with his neoconservative
mentors, from Allan Bloom to Paul Wolfowitz, after recanting