America: Everything, everywhere, all at once

Ask a well-read person to name a late 20th-century, big-think book about geopolitics and world history, and they might well name The End of History and the Last Man by political scientist Francis Fukuyama. Published in 1992, The End of History explains the historical triumph of (and the lack of viable alternatives to) liberal democratic market capitalism. Although conceding that “some present-day countries might fail to achieve stable liberal democracy, and others might lapse back into other, more primitive forms of rule like theocracy or military dictatorship,” Fukuyama concluded that “the ideal of liberal democracy could not be improved on.”

 
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