In the Realm of the Last Man

A fascinating political memoir from celebrated author of The End of History and the Last Man In this powerful political memoir, encompassing his father's involvement in the civil rights movement and his own work on CIA contracts in the 1980s, Fukuyama analyses his life alongside the seismic political shifts of the last thirty years - from Bush to Obama to Trump, from the War on Terror to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Profound and provocative, this is an intimate portrait of one of the twenty-first century's most important thinkers, an urgent study of contemporary politics - and a treatise on how the West can claw democracy back from the brink. Fukuyama is a world-famous political scientist whose work consistently inspires global debate, coverage and public conversation. This memoir is a robust yet personal survey of the last three decades of history, for fans of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Free by Lea Ypi and Timothy Snyder's How Democracies Die