Contents
Preface .......................................7
Acknowledgments ............................19
Chapter I People Moving Through Time.......27
PART I: THE CYCLE
Chapter 2 Life Along the Generational Diagonal................. 43
Chapter 3 Belongingtoa "Generation"..............................58
Chapter 4 The Four-Part Cycle...........................69
Chapter 5 The Cyclein America ............................ 80
Chapter 6 From Puritans to Millennials and Beyon............. 97
PARTII: THE GENERATIONS
Chapter 7 The Colonial Cycle..............................113
Puritans...................................121
Cavaliers..................................129
Glorious................."..................137
Enlighteners .................................144
Chapter 8 The Revolutionary Cycle ............................151
Awakens.....................156
Liberty .............................................164
Republicans...................................172
Compromisers...............................181
Chapter 9 The Civil War Cycle ................"....................190
Transcendentals..................................195
Progressives. ....................................217
Chapter 10 The Great Power Cycle..............................228
Missionaries...................................233
Lost................................................247
G.I.s...............................................261
Silent ...........................................279
Chapter 11 The Millennial Cycle....................................295
Boomers....................................299
13ers..........................................317
Millennials.................................335
PARTIII: THE FUTURE
Chapter 12 The Past as Prologue ............................347
Chapter 13 Completing the Millennial Cycle.....................374
Chapter 14 The Beginning of History .......425
Table: The Generational Cycle in America ........................428
Glossary......................................429
Appendix A: A Theory of Genertis............................433
Appendix B: American Political Leadership by Generat................ 455
Notes on Sources .............................................465
Index .......................................................521
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