America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy is a 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama. It evolved from the Castle Lectures he gave at Yale University in 2005.

Fukuyama is often called a neoconservative, but he has been an irregular one, and, in this book, examines a successor political philosophy to what he terms the neoconservative legacy. He also regards some neoconservative ideas as having been executed badly by the George W. Bush Administration, especially what it called a broad preemptive doctrine as well as the Iraq War]. Bush himself, as well as Vice President [[Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, were not strongly connected to prior neoconservative discourse, although they had agreed with policies expressed by recognized neoconservatives.