schmann 's review for:

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

4.0

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So I partially skimmed the book, and the first section was boring to me (it's just not my genre) but despite that I found the latter 3/4 of the book very interesting. We talked about this book in grad school in some of our education classes since it had just come out but I never read it. It's fascinating to see generational trends explained. It's also interesting to read now, during the time the authors predicted we'd be in a Fourth Turning. Was 9/11 our crisis? I'm not convinced we are in a fourth turning and I'm also not one who'd like to create a self fulfilling prophecy based on this book. Note: I read this because an article described this as something Steve Bannon was really into and since it had been a book I was interested in I picked it up. I wanted to understand a bit more about how he thinks (I'm not a fan of his, PS). According to the article, he believes we are in a fourth turning. You don't need this book to understand him but it does give more in depth insight into what may be influencing him.