Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning
William Van Dusen Wishard
Format: Paperback, 324pp.
ISBN: 9780738836560
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Pub. Date: December 2000
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From The Publisher:
The next three decades may be the most decisive 30-year period in the history of mankind. To understand why, Between Two Ages offers an eagle's-eye view of how the cultural, technological and spiritual tectonic plates of life have been clashing and reshaping our lives, and how civilized existence struggles with this epic transformation.
About the Author
William Van Dusen Wishard heads WorldTrends Research, a Washington-based consultancy specializing in the analysis and synthesizing of global trends. His briefings on world trends for members of Congress and for professional groups have been televised nationally by C-SPAN numerous times, and his Voice of America commentary has been broadcast worldwide.
He and his wife Anne live in Reston, Virginia.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | 9 |
| Foreword | 15 |
| Introduction | 17 |
1 | At the Core of the Interregnum | 25 |
2 | Life in 1900 | 36 |
3 | The Great Expansion | 46 |
4 | World War I | 51 |
5 | First Articulations of the Interregnum | 56 |
6 | The Intellectualization of American Life | 65 |
7 | The Great Depression | 71 |
8 | Management - A New Profession | 77 |
9 | The March of Equality | 85 |
10 | World War II | 91 |
11 | Changing Cultural Patterns | 99 |
12 | The Interregnum's Spiritual and Psychological Context | 119 |
13 | Summary of 1900-1950 | 137 |
14 | The Context | 142 |
15 | The 1950s - Hinge of the 20th Century | 157 |
16 | What, Really, Were the '60s All About? | 169 |
17 | Future Shock and Millennial Neurosis - The '70s, '80s and '90s | 188 |
18 | Quo Vadis, America? | 202 |
19 | The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning | 208 |
| Epilogue | 274 |
| Endnotes | 283 |
| Chronology 1970-2000 | 287 |
| Technology Forecast 2002-2020 | 203 |
| Bibliography | 309 |
| About the Author | 321 |
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