bOne of iBloombergi's Best Books of the Yearb pbThe master geopolitical forecaster and iNew York Times ibestselling author of iThe Next 100 Yearsi focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture.b pIn his riveting new book, noted forecaster and bestselling author George Friedman turns to the future of the United States. Examining the clear cycles through which the United States has developed, upheaved, matured, and solidified, Friedman breaks down the coming years and decades in thrilling detail.br American history must be viewed in cycles--particularly, an eighty-year institutional cycle that has defined us there are three such examples--the Revolutionary Warfounding, the Civil War, and World War II, and a fifty-year socio-economic cycle that has seen the formation of the industrial classes, baby boomers, and the middle classes. These two major cycles are both converging on