The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to
America’s past to predict our future in this “riveting and revelatory” (Tony Robbins) prophecy
for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will
look like afterward. Thirty years ago Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the
world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years
they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles each one lasting roughly
eighty to one hundred years the length of a long human life with each cycle composed of four
eras—or “turnings”—that always arrive in the same order and each last about twenty years. The
last of these eras—the fourth turning—was always the most perilous a period of civic upheaval
and national mobilization as traumatic and transformative as the New Deal and World War II the
Civil War or the American Revolution. Now right on schedule our own fourth turning has
arrived…and Neil Howe has returned with an extraordinary new prediction. What we see all around
us—the polarization the growing threat of civil conflict and global war—will culminate by the
early 2030s in a climax that poses great danger and yet also holds great promise perhaps even
bringing on America’s next golden age. Every generation alive today will play a vital role in
determining how this crisis is resolved for good or ill. “Big history and bold futurology”
( The Wall Street Journal ) The Fourth Turning Is Here takes us deep into the collective
personality of each living generation to make sense of our current crisis. explore how all of
us will be differently affected by the political social and economic challenges we’ll face in
the decade to come and reveal how our country our communities and our families can best
prepare to meet these challenges ahead.
