The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

by Neil Howe

Coming of age during the Awakening era, born from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, a global “Boom Generation” (Prophet) is acquiring a reputation as values-focused, ethnocentric senior leaders. Generational names: ’68 or Boom (Europe); Protest or Sponti (Germany); Brigate Rosse (Italy); Post-1947 (India); Fourth or Red Guard or Sent Down (China). Sample leaders: Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, Joko Widodo, Shinzo Abe, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Benjamin Netanyahu.