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Books like The End of History and the Last Man
The best books like The End of History and the Last Man are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is about liberal democracy, political philosophy, geopolitics. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
A kindred history read.
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- The Cold War: A New History
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John Lewis Gaddis · History
John Lewis Gaddis wrote The Cold War: A New History as a short, synthetic account of the entire superpower conflict, from the end of World War II through the Soviet collapse in 1991.
Shares geopolitics and ideology with The End of History and the Last Man.
Read the summary → - History of the Peloponnesian War
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · History
Thucydides' account of the twenty-seven-year conflict between Athens and Sparta stands as the founding document of political realism and the first work of history that treats evidence and causation as problems to be solved rather than stories to be told.
Both dig into human nature.
Read the summary → - Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen · History
Hitler's Willing Executioners is Daniel Goldhagen's argument that the Holocaust was made possible by a specifically German form of antisemitism — what he calls "eliminationist antisemitism" — that was so deeply embedded in German culture by the twentieth century that ordinary Germans participated in the genocide willingly, not reluctantly, and often with evident enthusiasm.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Anatomy of Fascism
- The Captive Mind
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Czesław Miłosz · History
The Captive Mind is Czesław Miłosz's study of how intellectuals living under Soviet-imposed communism in postwar Eastern Europe came to accommodate, justify, and eventually internalize the ideology they had initially resisted.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Changing World Order
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Ray Dalio · History
The Changing World Order is Ray Dalio's attempt to map the long arc of rising and declining empires through a systematic historical framework, with the explicit goal of understanding whether the United States is in decline and what a world with China as a co-dominant power would look like.
Both dig into geopolitics.
Read the summary → - The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington · History
Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996, is an expansion of a 1993 Foreign Affairs essay that generated more response than almost any article in that journal's history.
Both dig into geopolitics.
Read the summary → - The Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · History
Published in 1848 on the eve of a wave of European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a short political pamphlet that has shaped more history than almost any other document of its length.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Lessons of History
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Will & Ariel Durant · History
The Lessons of History is the Durants' distillation of their eleven-volume The Story of Civilization — a project that consumed forty years — into a slim, hundred-page essay.
Both dig into human nature.
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Books like The End of History and the Last Man: quick answers
What are the best books like The End of History and the Last Man?
The best books like The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis, History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The End of History and the Last Man, such as liberal democracy, political philosophy, geopolitics.
What should I read after The End of History and the Last Man?
A natural next read after The End of History and the Last Man is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis.
What books are similar to The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama?
The End of History and the Last Man centers on liberal democracy, political philosophy, geopolitics. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis, History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
