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Four Cheers For Liberal Democracy
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
January 12, 1992| Author:
George Gilder
| Copyright 1992 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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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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