Francis Fukuyama, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-23643-4
Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man; Trust) is no stranger to controversial theses, and here he advances two: that there are sound nonreligious reasons to put limits on biotechnology, and that such limits can be enforced. Fukuyama argues...
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Francis Fukuyama, Author . Cornell Univ. $21 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8014-4292-6
This slim volume, derived from lectures Fukuyama presented at Cornell in 2003, picks up one of the loose threads from his decade-old The End of History and the Last Man
. He asserts that the lack of "organizational tradition" in "failed...
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Francis Fukuyama, Author The Free Press $29.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-02-910975-5
History is directional, and its endpoint is capitalist liberal democracy, asserts Fukuyama, former U.S. State Department planner. In a broad, ambitious work of political philosophy, he identifies two prime forces that supposedly push all societies...
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Francis Fukuyama, Author Free Press $25 (457p) ISBN 978-0-02-910976-2
In his acclaimed The End of History and the Last Man, Rand Corporation analyst Fukuyama argued that capitalist democracy is the ultimate goal of history, the highest form of socioeconomic organization. His audacious premise in this provocative new...
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Francis Fukuyama, Author Free Press $18 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-82525-0
Fukuyama argues that a nation's economic strength is tied to its social unity, and that America is in danger of losing both. (June)
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Francis Fukuyama, Author Harper Perennial $15 (448p) 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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Francis Fukuyama, Author Free Press $26 (354p) ISBN 978-0-684-84530-2
Fukuyama attempts to reconcile the extent of social disruption experienced in many Western countries during the past 30 years with his neo-Hegelian belief that the triumph of Western liberal democracy represents an end of history (articulated in The
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Francis Fukuyama, Author Yale University Press $28 (226p) ISBN 978-0-300-11399-0
In this history of and forecast for neoconservative thought, Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man), a neoconservative with close ties to the Bush administration, complicates the notion that many of the Bush administration's policies are...
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Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (688p) ISBN 978-0-374-22734-0
The evolving tension between private and public animates this magisterial history of the state. In his hominids-to-guillotines chronicle of humanity's attempts to build strong, accountable governments that adhere to the rule of law, international...
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Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (752p) ISBN 978-0-3742-2735-7
The distinction between strong and accountable government is seen as a driver of history in this second volume of the author’s magisterial study of politics and the state. Following up The Origins of Political Order, Stanford scholar Fukuyama...
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Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-12929-3
Political scientist Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man) makes an ambitious and provocative critique of identity politics, which he locates in both the leftist crusade for equality for marginalized people and right-wing ethnonationalism...
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Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-60671-8
A liberalism under siege from right and left gets a measured defense in this incisive treatise on politics and governance. Stanford University political scientist Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man), ponders classical liberalism as a...
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