num_pages: 400
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER  Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheavalwith deep insights into the roles that Boomers Generation X and Millennials have to play. First comes a High a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisisthe Fourth Turningwhen society passes through a great and perilous gate in history.William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the worldand your place in it. With blazing originality The Fourth Turning illuminates the past explains the present and reimagines the future. Most remarkably it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how Americas past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct Modern history moves in cycles each one lasting about the length of a long human life each composed of four twenty-year erasor turningsthat comprise historys seasonal rhythm of growth maturation entropy and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the postWorld War II period The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare individually and collectively for this rendezvous with destiny.
language: English
title: The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
publisher: Crown