The get good at geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next a century focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s provides dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture.

In his riveting new book, noted forecaster and bestselling author George Friedman turns to the future of the United States. Examining the apparent cycles by which the United States is rolling out, upheaved, matured, and solidified, about The Surprise Before the Quiet: America’s Discord, the Arriving Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond Friedman breaks down the arriving years and decades in thrilling fine detail.

American history must be seen in cycles-particularly, an eighty-year ‘institutional cycle’ that has defined us (you can find three such examples-the Groundbreaking War/founding, the Civil Battle, and World War II), and a fifty-year ‘socio-economic routine’ which has seen the forming of the commercial classes, seniors, and the center classes. These two main cycles are both converging within the late 2020s-a amount of time in which several foundations will change. The United States must withstand upheaval and possible turmoil, but also, eventually, increased strength, stability, and power in the globe.

Friedman’s analysis is usually detailed and amazing, and covers issues like the size and scope of the federal government, the future of marriage and the cultural agreement, shifts in corporate structures, and new cultural trends which will react to much longer lifestyle expectancies. This brand-new book is definitely both provocative and interesting.