The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

Author: Strauss, WilliamEdition: ReprintBinding: Kindle EditionFormat: Kindle eBookNumber Of Pages: 402Release Date: 16-01-2009Details: "A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future." —USA Weekend 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 how America’s past will predict its future.William Strauss and Neil Howe base this vision on a provocative 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 swe