This astonishing book changes how you start to see the world — and your put in place it.

With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates days gone by, explains today’s, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it provides an utterly persuasive prophecy in regards to a new American era that may begin just after the millennium.

William Strauss and Neil Howe bottom this vision on the provocative new theory of American history. The authors appear back 500 years and uncover a distinct pattern: about The Fourth Turning Modern background goes in cycles, each one enduring about the distance of a long human lifestyle, each composed of four eras–or ‘turnings’–that last about twenty years and that often get to the same purchase.

First comes a High, an interval of confident extension as a new order takes main after the outdated continues to be swept apart. Next comes an Awakening, a period of religious exploration and rebellion against the now-established purchase. Then comes an Unraveling, an extremely troubled era where individualism triumphs over crumbling establishments. Last comes a Crisis–the Fourth Turning–when society goes by through an excellent and perilous gate ever sold. Together, the four turnings comprise history’s seasonal tempo of development, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.

Strauss and Howe locate today’s America seeing that midway via an Unraveling, roughly a decade away from the next era of Problems. In a brilliant analysis from the post-World War II period, they show how generational dynamics will be the essential to understanding the cycles of American history. They draw vivid portraits of all modern decades: the can-do G.I.s, the mediating Silent, the values-absorbed Boomers, the pragmatic 13ers, and the kid Millennials. Put into the context of history’s lengthy rhythms, the persona and part of each generation become clear–as will the inevitability from the coming Crisis.

Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how most of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America’s next rendezvous with destiny.