How long does it take to read The End of History and the Last Man?
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama takes about 7 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 421 pages, about 115,775 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Observing totalitarian and authoritarian governments falling around the world, Fukuyama develops an hypothesis that the end state of all this change will be liberal democracy everywhere (The End of History), and considers how people will react (The Last Man).
Subjects: Philosophy, World politics, History, Weltgeschichte, Geschiedfilosofie, Ende
