{"product_id":"in-the-realm-of-the-last-man-from-the-globally-bestselling-author-of-the-end-of-history-and-the-last-man-9781805227991","title":"In the Realm of the Last Man: FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN","description":"\u003cp\u003eA captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker\u003c\/p\u003e'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' THE TIMES 'None is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama' FINANCIAL TIMES In 1989, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama - then an early-career academic who had cut his teeth conducting research for Ronald Reagan during his years as California governor - delivered a conference paper that would go on to become one of the most celebrated -and controversial - works of political theory of our time: The End of History.By 2009, he had broken with his neoconservative mentors, from Allan Bloom to Paul Wolfowitz, after recanting his support for the 'disastrous' invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the laissez-faire economics that produced the financial crash of 2008. But why did he change his mind? 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.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781805227991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: Export\/Airside\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 08 Sep 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Profile Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 21.4(H)x13.4(L)x2.8(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eFrancis Fukuyama is the internationally-bestselling author of 11 books, including his globally renowned \u003ci\u003eLiberalism and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He lives in California.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eWise and thoughtful... in a world of pretentious complexity, Fukuyama's clarity of prose is a political statement * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the record of the moment when Liberalism learnt to live in the present tense * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eLess a conventional autobiography than the story of a life in ideas... For Fukuyama, an end to history never meant an end to thinking * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully engaging, its intellectual insights [are] persuasive and interesting. A highly readable account of some of the most important ideas of the last 40 years * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eIntellectual, interesting and quirky * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Francis Fukuyama: 'Fukuyama has a unique skill for imbuing ideology with a narrative thrust' * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eWe need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA basic rule of intellectual life is that celebrity destroys quality... Francis Fukuyama is a glorious exception * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eFukuyama writes about the degeneration of America's political system with the passion and frustration of a prophet straining to be heard * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eA wealth of insights worthy of the greatest writers of democracy * Financial Times *","brand":"Francis Fukuyama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49241062736089,"sku":"9781805227991","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781805227991.jpg?v=1789264506","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/in-the-realm-of-the-last-man-from-the-globally-bestselling-author-of-the-end-of-history-and-the-last-man-9781805227991","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}