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Article: Four Cheers For Liberal Democracy
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- January 12, 1992
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THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN
By Francis Fukuyama
Free Press. 418 pp. $24.95
AMID ALL the timid tomes and hollow debates of the day,
ruminating on the moral codes of the Palm Beach Au Bar, the fiery
bellyaches of the New Male, or the platoons of CIA officials and
Watergate burglars now widely identified with heavy weapons blazing
away on the Grassy Knoll, Francis Fukuyama has launched a
countercultural blitzkrieg. Despite a cumbersome title, The End of
History and the Last Man unleashes an awesome barrage of some
200,000 well-honed words at all the multiculturalism, ethical
relativism and pseudomarxist economics that now addle the American
liberal-arts campus and political ...