The Fourth Turning: an American Prophecy |
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 | In 1992, Messrs Strauss and Howe published their groundbreaking book, Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, and I was immediately captivated. In 1997, the authors refined their theories with the publication of this book. In this book the authors explain, in a thoroughgoing way, their theory of generational change, and how it has played out throughout American and British history, back to the Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century. In the authors' theory, American and British (though mostly American) society goes moves along through a series of four seasons, creating a succession of four archetypal generation-types. Also, as history makes people, people make history, and the constellation of generations interprets the events in their world, reacting in the form of the four seasons. Tracing this march of generations across history, they admirably show the past is indeed prologue, and America is heading towards another seasonal change, as the nation moves once ... read more.
Written by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
Published 05 October 1998.
Published by Bantam USA.
rrp £12.07.
400 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0767900464
ISBN-13: 9780767900461 | |
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