<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpdcd55b95yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Our book for June is </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"> <span><i>The Fourth Turning is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When this Crisis will End</i> by historian and demographer Neil Howe.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">The discussion will take place on Saturday, June 27 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. </span><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><font color="#ff0000" style="background-color: inherit;">[Note that the discussion is the <u>4th Saturday</u> of the month rather than the 3rd due to library closure for Juneteenth.]</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:755a12de-6966-29be-4e7e-13949502c1cb@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; max-width: 400px; width: 50%;" data-id="<755a12de-6966-29be-4e7e-13949502c1cb@yahoo.com>"></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><div dir="ltr" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>Looking back at the last 500 years, [Neil Howe and the late William Straus] uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years…with each cycle composed of four eras or “turnings”…The last of these eras – the fourth turning – was always the most perilous, a period of civic upheaval and national mobilization as traumatic and transformative as the New Deal and World War II, the Civil War, or the American Revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, right on schedule, our own fourth turning has arrived…and Neil Howe has returned with an extraordinary new prediction. What we see all around us – the polarization, the growing threat of civil conflict and global war – will culminate by the early 2030s in a climax that poses great danger and yet also holds great promise, perhaps even bringing on America’s next golden age.</div><div><br></div><div>“Driven by a deep sense that American democracy is at serious risk… [yet Howe predicts that] out of today’s polarization and partisanship will come a new egalitarian, outward-facing, confident and unified America.” – Francis Fukuyama, <i>The New York Times</i></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 27th,</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div dir="ltr">Kevin (& Paula)</div></span></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>