Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at Stanford University. He has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and George Mason University, alongside serving as a researcher at the RAND Corporation and Deputy Director for the State Department's policy planning staff. His six previous books were also published by Profile.
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 -- Andrew Anthony * Guardian * Books have poured out lately on liberalism's failings ... None is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama -- Edmund Fawcett * FT * Transformative ... Maybe now, as Europe sees its most brutal war since 1945, we are ready to heed what Fukuyama was trying to tell us all along -- Matthew d'Ancona * Evening Standard * One of the west's most interesting public intellectuals ... he is always worth reading as a writer prepared to recalibrate and develop his thinking -- Iain Martin * Times * Fukuyama succeeds in his explaining his objections to identity politics with great clarity and concreteness -- Iain MacWhirter * Herald * Concise and lucid ... Fukuyama sketches a strategy that classical liberals might adopt in order to shore up the foundations of their favoured form of government -- Oliver Letwin * Tablet * Praise for Identity: As wise as it is compact, travelling at great speed through difficult terrain to a sensible conclusion * The Times * A primer on the big political shift of our times, and an explainer of how we got here * Sunday Times * Sweeping and ambitious * Prospect * A useful primer on an important subject * Literary Review * A short, sharp defence of a doctrine which has come under attack from all sides -- Tom Gatti * New Statesman *