Ever prescient Jane Jacob's final book outlined a coming dark age—and how to get through it .Eerily prescient as always, rereading the 2005 book today serves as a survivors’ guide to the Age of Trump. "At a time when pundits and political scientists were celebrating the end of history, pointing to an emerging Democratic majority and extolling the virtues of a flat world of globalization, she ominously predicted a coming age of urban crisis, mass amnesia, and populist backlash in her final work, Dark Age Ahead. "