{"product_id":"2940169407464","title":"The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis astonishing book will change the way you see the world -- and your place in it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith startling originality, \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Turning\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrauss 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever your stage of life, \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Turning\u003c\/i\u003e offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114560372976,"sku":"2940169407464","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169407464_p0.jpg?v=1763681730","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169407464","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}