Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

The author of Age of Revolutions, Fareed Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India, to Muslim parents, but his own religious affiliation can best be described as agnostic. Zakaria traveled to the United States to attend college at Yale University and would later go on to receive a doctoral degree in government from Harvard. Since his school days, Zakaria has enjoyed a distinguished career as a scholar, journalist, political commentator, author, television show host, and producer. He has received honorary degrees from multiple universities and has been the recipient of the Peabody Award and the Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism by the International Center for Journalists. A prolific writer, Zakaria has penned innumerable articles and essays, and his best-known books include The Future of Freedom (2003) and The Post-American World (2011). He currently hosts the Emmy-nominated CNN show, Fareed Zakaria GPS.

Zakaria’s political philosophy has been defined in contradictory terms. He sees himself as a centrist, but he has been described by others as a conservative, a liberal, and a radical centrist. The author dislikes being pigeonholed into any precise category because being forced to accept a label limits the range of his observations to a restrictive ideological framework. In a 2005 article in The Village

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