American Culture

The Vanishing Half Summary of Key Points

The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett, spans from the 1950s to the 1990s, exploring the lives of the Vignes twin sisters. One lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape, while the other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past.

The Fourth Turning Summary of Key Points

The Fourth Turning is a book by William Strauss and Neil Howe which presents a theory that American history can be described in a four-stage cycle of generational types and recurring mood eras in American generations. According to the authors, these cycles have defined American history, and they will continue to repeat in predictable, four-generation cycles stretching into the future.