Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-519) and index.
Contents
People moving through time -- Life along the generational diagonal -- Belonging to a "generation" -- The four-part cycle -- The cycle in America -- From Puritans to millennials and beyond -- The colonial cycle -- The revolutionary cycle -- The Civil War cycle -- The great power cycle -- The millennial cycle -- The past as prologue -- Completing the millennial cycle -- The beginning of history.
Summary
A history of America cast as a succession of generational biographies beginning in 1584.