Endorsements

Future students of mine will be required to read THE PURITAN GIFT by Hopper and Hopper. This is a warm-hearted but unflinching critique of our Western managerial and technological culture. It is in many senses "a hymn of praise to America" but, in this, sees the cracks, cranks and follies, as readily as it bears witness to nobility and fortune.

Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School, England (April 12, 2007)

... an interesting, challenging, well-informed and powerfully-written book ... It will have a long shelf-life.

Norman Stone, formerly Oxford Professor of Modern History

I am tremendously interested in what you write and impressed by it. I look forward to your book on the subject. Don't forget to tell your publisher to send me an order form.

the late Dr Peter Drucker, America's greatest writer on management

I felt like a small boy who went out to shoot squirrels and came back with an elephant ... I would insist that every person enrolled in the study of technology should be required to read The Puritan Gift before reading any other management book.

Myron Tribus, formerly Director of Advanced Engineering Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; US Undersecretary of State for Industry under Richard Nixon

I can readily commend this refreshing work to anyone working in the healthcare industry. It illuminates the relationship between medicine and management.

Roger Schenke, Executive Vice President of the American College of Physician Executives

I found the manuscript fascinating... I would thoroughly enjoy teaching a college course using this text... Attempting a chronicle of 'management history from 1630 – to 2006 is a daunting task but to make it readable is even more challenging. I think this well-written manuscript fills an important gap in the development of management thinking ...

Dr James R. Clauson, Associate Professor in Quality Assurance, University of California

This is a fascinating, if depressing, story of a significant piece of political folly ... it is most important that this piece be published.

Alfred Chandler, Emeritus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School on a draft of ‘Capital Expenditure and the (so-called) Experts’ (see pages 203 to 207 of THE PURITAN GIFT)

My colleagues and I were much taken with your clear-headed discussion of the recent history of investment in the United States ... sure command of your facts ... so very well written ... how elegant and impressive I find your argument.

Alan M. Kantrow, Editor, Harvard Business Review, on a draft of ‘Capital Expenditure and the (so-called) Experts’ (see pages 203 to 207 of THE PURITAN GIFT)

You were certainly one of the most eloquent, and credible voices being raised at that time, and I wish more companies had been listening to you. Maybe more of them will now; I suggest you start writing again.

Prof. Robert H. Hayes, Professor of the Management of Technology, Harvard Business School on Kenneth Hopper’s articles in American Machinist, 1970 and INNOVATION, 1971

Very interesting, a fun read and a store of eye-opening anecdotes.

Robert Chote, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

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