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| Author | William Strauss, Neil Howe |
| Publisher | Crown |
| Publication date | January 16, 2009 |
| Print length | 400 pages |
| Customer Reviews | ★★★★★ / 3,929 ratings |
| Great on Kindle | ✅ |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future."—USA Weekend
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 its future.
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 eras—or "turnings"—that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order. In
The Fourth Turning, the authors illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.
First 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.
The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.
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It can be summed up by: "Hard times create good men. Good men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
Guess which of the 4 cycles we're in now? Unfortunately few will read such a book because people prefer the normalcy bias of being asleep and having their heads buried in the sand.
It can be summed up by: "Hard times create good men. Good men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
Guess which of the 4 cycles we're in now? Unfortunately few will read such a book because people prefer the normalcy bias of being asleep and having their heads buried in the sand.
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It can be summed up by: "Hard times create good men. Good men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
Guess which of the 4 cycles we're in now? Unfortunately few will read such a book because people prefer the normalcy bias of being asleep and having their heads buried in the sand.
We're going to be just fine. History is important though and the thesis of this book is certainly compelling
6 Ages that define the lifespan of an Empire:
1. The Age of Pioneers
2. The Age of Conquests
3. The Age of Commerce
4. The Age of Affluence
5. The Age of Intellect
6. The Age of Decadence (Bread and Circuses) that is characterized by the following:
6.1 A Undisciplined and Over-extended Military
6.2 A conspicuous display of wealth
6.3 A massive disparity between rich and poor
6.4 A desire to live off a bloated state
6.5 An obsession with sex
6.6 The debasement of currency
...But don't mind me. This is just my uneducated opinion.
6 Ages that define the lifespan of an Empire:
1. The Age of Pioneers
2. The Age of Conquests
3. The Age of Commerce
4. The Age of Affluence
5. The Age of Intellect
6. The Age of Decadence (Bread and Circuses) that is characterized by the following:
6.1 A Undisciplined and Over-extended Military
6.2 A conspicuous display of wealth
6.3 A massive disparity between rich and poor
6.4 A desire to live off a bloated state
6.5 An obsession with sex
6.6 The debasement of currency
...But don't mind me. This is just my uneducated opinion.
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6 Ages that define the lifespan of an Empire:
1. The Age of Pioneers
2. The Age of Conquests
3. The Age of Commerce
4. The Age of Affluence
5. The Age of Intellect
6. The Age of Decadence (Bread and Circuses) that is characterized by the following:
6.1 A Undisciplined and Over-extended Military
6.2 A conspicuous display of wealth
6.3 A massive disparity between rich and poor
6.4 A desire to live off a bloated state
6.5 An obsession with sex
6.6 The debasement of currency
...But don't mind me. This is just my uneducated opinion.
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