- Twenty-first century, Cycles, History, Forecasts
First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century.
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Earnest, epic, plot-driven and grave.
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- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- William Strauss, Neil Howe
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Broadway, Broadway Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780767900461
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First sentence
“AMERICA FEELS LIKE IT'S UNRAVELING.”
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