The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama. Harper Perennial, $15 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-380-72002-6

In a broad, ambitious work of political philosophy, a three-week PW bestseller in cloth, Fukuyama asserts that history is directional and that its endpoint is capitalist liberal democracy. (Feb.)

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