When you hear or read a title, you can often guess the main plot of a book. In this case, the guess was only about half right and doubtless why it is still read 3 decades after it was written.
In my case, I've mainly been listening to it as an audio book, but needed the kindle version to dig out a few references. The argument rests on Hegel's theory of a directional history but being written a century and a half later includes many contemporary examples, new insisghts, and critiques and extensions of later theories.
I was surprised to see that both the analysis and the predictions seem to be holding up well--this because the end of history is not really the "end," as many critiques assume, but an institutional setup that is approached asymptotically with many zigs and zags.in his theory. It winds up being a version (or perhaps many) of what 19th century liberals had pushed for--liberal forms of representative democracy with extensive markets.
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