Book Discussion "The Fourth Turning is Here" by Neil Howe

Our book for June is The Fourth Turning is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When this Crisis will End by historian and demographer Neil Howe.

From Amazon:
Looking back at the last 500 years, [Neil Howe and the late William Straus] uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years…with each cycle composed of four eras or “turnings”…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.

“Driven by a deep sense that American democracy is at serious risk… [yet Howe predicts that] out of today’s polarization and partisanship will come a new egalitarian, outward-facing, confident and unified America.” – Francis Fukuyama, The New York Times