Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by William Strauss
››› Free download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Generations ISBN: 0688119123 ISBN13: 9780688119126 Autor: William Strauss/Neil Howe Rating: 4 of 5 stars (4134) counts Original Format: Paperback, 544 pages Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3. Published: September 30th 1992 / by William Morrow Paperbacks / (first published 1991) Language: English Genre(s): History- 50 users Nonfiction- 46 users Sociology- 26 users
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Description: Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading. William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today. Their bold theory is that each generation belongs to one of four types, and that these types repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern. The vision of Generations allows us to plot a recurring cycle in American history -- a cycle of spiritual awakenings and secular crises -- from the founding colonists through the present day and well into this millenium. Generations is
at once a refreshing historical narrative and a thrilling intuitive leap that reorders
not only our history books but also our expectations for the twenty-first century.
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- Generations: The History of America\'s Future, 1584 to 2069 (Hardcover)
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Rewiews:
Dec 10, 2010 Bruce Kuznicki Rated it: liked it I liked this book and found its basic idea intriguing. However, as the book progressed, in particular as it addressed elements of history I am knowledgeable about, I saw that the authors' scholarship was sometimes shoddy; they misused elements of history they knew superficially or not at all in ways that made me doubt them generally. Essentially, I encountered this often enough to begin suspecting they were simply assuming their overall theory was correct and had not done the rigorous work of tr I liked this book and found its basic idea intriguing. However, as the book progressed, in particular as it addressed elements of history I am knowledgeable about, I saw that the authors' scholarship was sometimes shoddy; they misused elements of history they knew superficially or not at all in ways that made me doubt them generally. Essentially, I encountered this often enough to begin suspecting they were simply assuming their overall theory was correct and had not done the rigorous work of truly penetrating those moments in our history to see if their hypothesis stood up to such analysis. Nonetheless, I also had the sense that they were on to something. I'm not sure exactly what that something is, and I'm also quite doubtful that their own sense of what they've "discovered" is almost surely mostly wrong, but even so, they've opened up a manner of understanding American History that might be profitably explored, and at this point, this book is worth considering because of the window it may open on that manner of seeing this history. I don't think a reader needs to read the whole book; not surprisingly, it's when they begin speculating about the future that they are treading on the most dangerous ground, which they can hardly be blamed for-- even if their scholarship was more rigorous and reliable, making predictions about a near future that their readers would be living within the moment would be nearly impossible. Additionally, one can get the jist of their thinking by reading perhaps 150-200 pp. Still, though I give the book only three stars, I still rather heartily recommend that readers give it that 150-200 pp chance. 8 likes
