The main fault of this book is that it uses the 1950s as the index for a whole load of social indicators to show how the sixties more or less destroyed the social compact. But if you look at (at least) some of these social indicators, you find that the *fifties* were the outlier period. Just another demonstration of the lies, damn lies . . . . principle. Explaining why the fifties were an extraordinary period of stability might have made for an interesting book, but wouldn't have justified the present-day (socially conservative) policy initiatives Fukuyama clearly wants to agitate for. A fundamentally dishonest book. ( )

Another one of those books looking for an audience by suggesting that we are living in times of great change. Really ? One Amazon reviewer called it "silly". Perhaps. ( )