<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future.”—<i>USA Weekend</i></b><br><b> </b><br>William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, <i>The Fourth Turning</i> 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. <br><br>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 <i>The Fourth Turning</i>, the authors illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis o