Four Cheers For Liberal Democracy

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 12, 1992| Author: George Gilder | Copyright information

THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN By Francis Fukuyama Free Press. 418 pp. $24.95

AMID ALL the timid tomes and hollow debates of the day, ruminating on the moral codes of the Palm Beach Au Bar, the fiery bellyaches of the New Male, or the platoons of CIA officials and Watergate burglars now widely identified with heavy weapons blazing away on the Grassy Knoll, Francis Fukuyama has launched a countercultural blitzkrieg. Despite a cumbersome title, The End of History and the Last Ma...

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