From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir.
Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark, bestselling works of political philosophy and history. Here, for the first time, he charts his political and intellectual evolution across five transformative decades. We follow him from the circle of students around the conservative intellectual Allan Bloom at Cornell, into the halls of power in Washington and at the RAND Corporation, and into private conversations with world leaders from Muammar Qaddhafi to Chinaâs powerful elite. Fukuyama touches on his familyâs story, including his relativesâ internment during World War II along with other Japanese Americans. And, in surprisingly personal terms, he reflects on the experiences that led him to reevaluate his own thinking, most notably his dramatic public break with the neoconservative movement over the invasion of Iraq.
More than a conventional memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man is personal history as political historyâthe story of a life that illuminates the troubled fate of democracy and liberalism over the last fifty years. Returning to and developing the concepts that have been central to his workârecognition, thymos, trust, identity, human nature, institutions, and the Last ManâFukuyama brings the depth and richness of personal experience and pathbreaking scholarship to illuminate the crises of the twenty-first century.
Urgent, brilliant, and essential, Fukuyamaâs In the Realm of the Last Man reveals a major thinker grappling in real time with the convulsions of history, and looking ahead to our possible future.
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir.
Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark, bestselling works of political philosophy and history. Here, for the first time, he charts his political and intellectual evolution across five transformative decades. We follow him from the circle of students around the conservative intellectual Allan Bloom at Cornell, into the halls of power in Washington and at the RAND Corporation, and into private conversations with world leaders from Muammar Qaddhafi to Chinaâs powerful elite. Fukuyama touches on his familyâs story, including his relativesâ internment during World War II along with other Japanese Americans. And, in surprisingly personal terms, he reflects on the experiences that led him to reevaluate his own thinking, most notably his dramatic public break with the neoconservative movement over the invasion of Iraq.
More than a conventional memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man is personal history as political historyâthe story of a life that illuminates the troubled fate of democracy and liberalism over the last fifty years. Returning to and developing the concepts that have been central to his workârecognition, thymos, trust, identity, human nature, institutions, and the Last ManâFukuyama brings the depth and richness of personal experience and pathbreaking scholarship to illuminate the crises of the twenty-first century.
Urgent, brilliant, and essential, Fukuyamaâs In the Realm of the Last Man reveals a major thinker grappling in real time with the convulsions of history, and looking ahead to our possible future.