A review by polanabear
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss, Neil Howe

2.0

The author is guilty of cherry picking data to fit his hypothesis. He says that history is a cycle repeating itself regularly for 100 years or so. Within these cycles are stages, and then he goes on to find evidence that supports these stages. There a stage where wars break out, or a stage of change in awareness, and then proceeds to procure evidence for it. If you’re looking for evidence for vague things like change in awareness among the multitudes of happenings every moment, of course you’ll find something that might fit your graph. But these changes aren’t uniform or similar in scale.

The author also doesn’t explain well why this theory makes sense, only to point and say here’s some hand picked evidence for his theory.

I enjoyed the bits of history mentioned along the way and obviously history does rhyme but not bought in to his theory.