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George friedman's book, the storm before the calm, focuses on longer term institutional and socio-economic cycles in the us and how they have shaped present day america. The author describes an 80-year institutional and 50-year socio- economic cycle o... Read More
The book is a look back through us history from its founding and posits that the us is an invented machine that runs well, breaks down (the storm), gets fixed (the calm) and the cycle repeats. Friedman thinks that the twenties will be especially storm... Read More
Most importantly, it's the forecasted changes in these areas that make the book worth reading. The final chapters are speculative and arguable. It resonates with the theories proposed in the 4th turning.
Friedman's work integrates well with western civilization cyclists such as barzun but also explains the ideas of the austrians and russian *. I'm constantly amazed at the propensity of his rational arguments to explain how we got to now and where it’s... Read More
The storm before the calm is an analytical model that eschews personalities for larger, impersonal forces at work in american history. Though this book is not as engaging as the next hundred years it clearly complements and builds on it.
Cons
In shades of neal howe's (4th turning) friedman attempts to portray us history as 'cyclical' it oversimplifies our system of government and our historical cycles. It does a disservice to america and americans seeking to get clarity in the times.
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That complaint aside i like this book in the sense that i feel like i enjoyed the history discussion and could have a friendly ... Read More
George’s cycles coincide closely with the “economic history of the united states” college course that i took years ago
I disagree with his opinion that the us will continue and succeed with the same path
As an old person i feel that much more could be learned from the past but maybe the young need the education of failure along w... Read More
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The book is a really interesting political and cultural history of the usa
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At the same time it contains what my major professor and mentor termed “factual blunders
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Others bear mention and two examples will suffice
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The badwhen the author says that federal inventions cannot be patented he is flat wrong
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Ironically this error doesnt detract from the authors thesis
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In fact had he stated the actual case accurately his argument would have been rather stronger
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Another is his statement that the size of the federal government in terms of employees has remained roughly static since 1966
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