Ref Mike Sylwester’s comment above about Fukuyama’s “The End of History and the Last Man”, I have not read the book either.
However, I have read Fukuyama’s “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity”, and found it very good and thought-provoking.
The crisis of trust has perhaps been the post-9/11 Jihad’s greatest victory, but that does not invalidate Fukuyama’s work.
Rather, it has highlighted the vital part trust plays in lubricating societies, something which many of us previously took for granted, and can only now fully appreciate in the dark light of a new age of suspicion.
Similarly, the true value of Liberal democracy is something which can perhaps only be fully appreciated by those who have lost it.