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Article: geo-politics francis fukuyama is suffering from benefit- of- hindsight syndrome, says harry mount
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- April 9, 2006
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After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads
BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
PROFILE, pounds 12.99, 226 pp
T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
For his author photo in the American edition of this book, Francis
Fukuyama has pulled off a first - he has taken it himself. There he
sits, in a Puffa jacket and jeans, pressing the trigger on the tripod-
mounted camera in front of him. Just to be really sure that we know
he can handle a camera, he gives himself a credit: 'Photo by Francis
Fukuyama'.
This little vanity is a neat insight into the mind of the Johns
Hopkins University professor who graduated to Superdon status in 1992
with The End of History, the book that predicted a tendency for ...