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The Fourth Turning offers this bold prophecy:

 Just after the millennium, America will enter a new era that will culminate with a crisis comparable to the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II. The survival of the nation will almost certainly be at stake.

 Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history as a series of recurring 80- to 100-year cycles. Each cycle has four "turnings"-a High, an Awakening, an Unraveling, and a Crisis. The authors locate today's America as midway through an Unraveling, roughly a decade away from the next Crisis (or Fourth Turning). And they recommend ways Americans can prepare for what's ahead, as a nation and as individuals.

As Future Shock did in the 1970s and Megatrends did in the 1980s, this groundbreaking book will have a profound effect on every reader's perception of America's past, present, and future.

Want to know more about what went into the book? Read a letter from the authors in Dear Reader...

inter Is Coming
“America feels like it's unraveling. Though we live in an era of relative peace and comfort, we have sunk into a mood of pessimism about the long-term future, fearful that..

easons of History
“During the Middle Ages, travelers reported an unusual custom among illiterate villagers in central France. Whenever an event of local importance occurred..."

hat This Book Is
“This is a book that turns history into prophecy. It takes you on a journey through the confluence of social time and human life. In part one (Seasons), you will acquire..."(excerpt includes the Table of Contents)

ray Champions
“One afternoon in April 1689, as the American colonies boiled with rumors that King James II was about to strip them of their liberties, the King's hand-picked governor..."

he Fourth Turning
 “Something happened to America at that time,” recalled U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye on V-J Day in 1995, the last of the 50-year commemoratives of World War II..."

he Eternal Return
“On the earthen floors of their rounded hogans, Navajo artists sift colored sand to depict the four seasons of life and time. Their ancestors have been doing this for centuries..."