Neil Howe and William Strauss on The Fourth Turning in 1997 CSpan

Neil Howe and William Strauss appear on C-SPAN to discuss the release of their 1997 book, The Fourth Turning. In this clip, they discuss the historical significance of turnings, as well as offer prescient predictions as to where America may be heading.

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[carbonunit003]

This needs to be viewed more

[veg1024]

If events play out on schedule over the next 15 years, these authors will hopefully finally receive the public attention they have so strongly deserved.

[TheMrOwl42]

11:45, the interviewer trumps Strauss. Technology like the internet has had an impact far broader than the automobile by connecting people across the world instantaneously and gives the millennial generation a far broader scope than any previous generation.

[satinspringsarabians]

This statement also appears in the Bible God said what has been will be again .

[Joe Valverde]

Wow, they nailed it

[deborahshults85]

It's from 1997. :-)

[bijeto]

Is this interview from '97 or 2000?

[bijeto]

It's hard to believe research has put them on par with Nostradamus. I would like to see them work on other historical models.

[DeadEnd2109]

All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.

[Jerry Hanlon]

15 years later the neoconservative Republican extreme of deriding & attacking Govn't & Democrats theopposite.

Ironic that in 1989 & 8 yrs of Reagan Bush 41 was forced

to bailout 2000 banks/ S&L's THAT WAS MAINLY A TEXAS CRISIS

taking up 1/2 the national bailout $. 2008 & 8 yrs of Bush 43,

trillions to banks again. What do you do with a record like THAT?

Deny, rebrand yourself tea party & CALL OBAMA A SOCIALIST.

Both parties share blame BUT NOT TO THE SAME DEGREE.