Will this drive politics in the Trump administration?... Revealed: Steve Bannon 'is obsessed with a book arguing institutions are destroyed and rebuilt every 80 years' Feb. 2, 2017 - Trump's chief strategist was fascinated by a book called The Fourth Turning; William Strauss and Neil Howe released the book and their theory in 1997; View history as a repetition of 80-year cycle that begin and ended with crises; Say cycles went from the Revolution to the Civil War, then to Second World War; Bannon became convinced that the next crisis would involve a massive conflict, according to a historian who worked with him on a documentary