Underlying those failed forecasts you'll find a flawed theory. For Strauss and Howe, generations are a series of discrete units of roughly uniform size, one following another in a largely ...

The scholars responsible were William Strauss and Neil Howe, whose book “Generations” introduced a provocative theory that U.S. history unfolds in boom-to-bust cycles of roughly 80 years.

In 1997, the historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning, a book that describes and expands upon the generational theory of history for which the two authors are regarded ...

An apocalypse is nigh, according to the theory amateur historians William Strauss and Neil Howe put forth in their books Generations (1991) and The Fourth Turning (1997), because history is ...

In their book The Fourth Turning, Howe and Strauss identified four generational archetypes: Hero, Artist, Prophet, and Nomad. Each consists of people born in a roughly 20-year period.

If Strauss and Howe’s theory is correct, each generation plays a specific role in the turning of eras. They term the generation that comes of age during Crisis the “Hero” generation, because ...

Strauss and Howe's Generational Theory as you summate it from the Fourth Turning is awfully similar to the theory of Kondratieff waves. Reply. Like (2) Daniel Carter. 23 Mar. 2017.

William Strauss and Neil Howe, coauthors of Generations, posit that each generation makes a unique bequest to those that follow and generally seeks to correct the excesses of the previous generation.

They called it the Crisis of 2020 — an unspecified calamity that “could rival the gravest trials our ancestors have known” and serve as “the next great hinge of history.&#82… ...

In 1997, the historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning, a book that describes and expands upon the generational theory of history for which the two authors are regarded ...