Fourth Turning

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval--with deep insights into the roles that Boomers Generation X and Millennials have to play--now with a new preface by Neil Howe.</b> <p/><b>One of the best efforts to give us an integrated vision of where we are going.--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/>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 Crisis--the Fourth Turning--when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. <p/>William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world--and your place in it. With blazing originality <i>The Fourth Turning</i> 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 what comes next. <p/>Strauss and 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 twenty-year eras--or turnings--that comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth maturation entropy and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period <i>The Fourth Turning </i>offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare individually and collectively for this rendezvous with destiny.