-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.fourthturning.com/html/fourth_turning.html <A HREF="http://www.fourthturning.com/html/fourth_turning.html">Fourth Turning </A> ----- What is this book about? 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... Word of Mouth "The Fourth Turning helps us understand the dramatic cultural changes and mood shifts in our times. Economic and technologic conditions alone, for example, would have told you little about the pessimism of the '90s. Surely similar shifts lie ahead, and The Fourth Turning gives us a tool for thinking through possible scenarios." WIRED, April, 1997 (Read the Wired Review) Go to Word of Mouth... Winter 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.. Seasons of History �During the Middle Ages, travelers reported an unusual custom among illiterate villagers in central France. Whenever an event of local importance occurred..." What 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) Gray 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..." The 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..." The 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..." content �1997 William Strauss & Neil Howe / design �1997 Interphase Designs created by Interphase Designs | comments to the Webmaster ===== from: http://www.fourthturning.com/html/exploring_history.html <A HREF="http://www.fourthturning.com/html/exploring_history.html">Exploring History</A> ----- Exploring History Exploring History is an introduction to the concepts developed in Strauss and Howe's first book, Generations, continued in 13th Gen and expanded upon in The Fourth Turning. �Generations and Archetypes What are generations? And why do they recur in four types? �History and Turnings What are turnings? And why do they impart a cyclical rhythm to modern history? With all these concepts to absorb, naturally there are questions. So the authors have put together a little something to help along the way. �Frequently Asked Questions, the authors reply �Authors� Choice is a guide to other resources on the web that may be of interest. What are Generations & Archetypes? A generation is composed of people whose common location in history lends them a collective persona. The span of one generation is roughly the length of a phase of life. Generations come in four archetypes, always in the same order, whose phase-of-life positions comprise a constellation. What is a Turning? A turning is an era with a characteristic social mood, a new twist on how people feel about themselves and their nation. It results from the aging of the generational constellation. A society enters a turning once every twenty years or so, when all living generations begin to enter their next phases of life. Like archetypes and constellations, turnings come four to a saeculum, and always in the same order. Site Comments or Suggestions? 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