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The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
by Strauss, William
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This astonishing book will change the way you see the world -- and your place in it. With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium. William Strauss and Neil Howe base this vision on a provocative new theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras--or "turnings"--that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis--the Fourth Turning--when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Strauss and Howe locate today's America as midway through an Unraveling, roughly a decade away from the next era of Crisis. In a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period, they show how generational dynamics are the key to understanding the cycles of American history. They draw vivid portraits of all the modern generations: the can-do G.I.s, the mediating Silent, the values-absorbed Boomers, the pragmatic 13ers, and the child Millennials. Placed in the context of history's long rhythms, the persona and role of each generation become clear--as does the inevitability of the coming Crisis. Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Strauss, William
- ISBN: 9780767900461
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.20 x 1.10
- Number Of Pages: 400
- Publication Year: 1997
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Excellent book about cycles of History and our current “Rendezvous with Hx
Barbara D. - 6 years 4 months agoThis one of the most significant books I have ever read. I bought a second copy to loan out to people as my own copy has so many pages marked. Written in 1997, it very accurately predicts the mess we are in now. ( without counting our Covid 19 disaster). It goes by the series of generational characteristics which occur repeatedly thru history. They seem to be “right on”. It was not an easy read but very worthwhile. I wish they would write another now and I just noticed there is a second book from earlier which I am going to try to find.
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The Fourth Turning
CINDY N. - 6 years 5 months agoWow! This is a must read book, it is so prophetic of our current COVID-19 crisis and its expected aftermath, it is downright scary. The viewpoint of an economist and political satirist found within these pages allows the reader to look backward to the 1400's and see undeniable cycles and context of societal archetypes and phases-The High, The Awakening, The Unraveling and THE Crisis (where we are now).