Howe looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like once it has.
If this all sounds a bit too neat, it is. His periodization is very arbitrary ... Despite his cyclical scheme, Howe’s book represents an updated version of Whig history.
Detect[s] deep cyclical patterns in the quotidian fluctuations of our experience ... Big history and bold futurology, and the closer it is to the present, the more reasonable it seems.
