01740nam a22001817a 4500 0 20260703093632.0 9780767900461 303.49 STR Strauss, William 20762 Fourth turning: what the cycles of history tell us about america's next rendezvous with destiny New York Crown 2024 382p. 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. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and 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 America’s 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 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, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny. Political Theory 20763 Howe, Neil 20764 B 0 0 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-07-03 1 303.49 STR 186030 2026-07-24 2026-07-03 2026-07-03 B 361575 361575