Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department's policy planning staff. He is the author of Identity, Political Order and Political Decay, The Origins of Political Order, The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.
"[Liberalism and Its Discontents is] a rare thing: [an] academic
treatise that may actually have influence in the arena of practical
politics . . . Fukuyama writes with a crystalline rationality."
--Joe Klein, New York Times Book Review "Liberalism and its
Discontents is a sterling book . . . Powerful and
well-executed."
--Seamus Flaherty, Quillette "An eloquent and eminently sensible
defense of liberal freedom and pluralism that should be read and
debated by leaders and activists across the ideological spectrum.
This clearly written and concisely argued book highlights
Fukuyama's lifelong examination of the political theories and
systems that shape human history--and in turn get shaped by its
developments."
--John Halpin, Washington Monthly "Essential reading . . .
Fukuyama's scholarly, yet approachable work is highly recommended
for any reader interested in understanding the current political
environment." --Library Journal "A liberalism under siege from
right and left gets a measured defense in this incisive treatise .
. . lucid [and] insightful . . . [A]n authoritative and accessible
diagnosis of how liberalism went wrong and how it can reclaim its
best impulses." --Publishers Weekly "[Fukuyama's] thinking here is
democratic to the core . . . A deceptively slender but rich
argument in favor of conserving liberal ideals--and liberal
government." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Urgent and timely .
. . A vital strength of this slim, elegant book is that it is
crystalline in its definitions, even while acknowledging the
complexities of practice . . . A brilliantly acute summary of the
way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves."
--Andrew Anthony, The Guardian
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