Profile has acquired the memoir of the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama whose 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man has achieved classic status.
Andrew Franklin, founder director of Profile Books, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) for Fukuyama’s In the Realm of the Last Man from John Ash at CAA. The book will be published in September 2026.
The synopsis reads: ‘In this powerful political memoir, encompassing his father’s involvement in the civil rights movement and his own work on CIA contracts in the 1980s, Fukuyama analyses his life alongside the seismic political shifts of the last 30 years – from Bush to Obama to Trump, from the War on Terror to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.’
In The End of History’s page on Wikipedia Fukuyama asserts that history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, and that the end of history, in this sense, means that liberal democracy is the final form of government for all nations. China may have a different view.
Franklin said: “It has been one of the great honours and pleasures of my publishing career to have published all of Francis Fukuyama’s books, starting with The End of History and the Last Man. He is one of the world’s most important intellectuals whose influence has been of immeasurable impact around the world. Here is his intellectual biography, charting his life and the development of his world-changing ideas.”
