THE PURITAN GIFT, RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM AMIDST GLOBAL FINANCIAL CHAOS - The Puritan Gift Logo - THE PURITAN GIFT by Kenneth Hopper and William Hopper

Welcome to THE PURITAN GIFT

Tracing the origins of American managerial culture

THE PURITAN GIFTtraces the origins and characteristics of an American managerial culture which, over the course of three centuries, turned a handful of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the energy, social mobility, competitiveness and capacity for innovation, all of which lie at the heart of that culture, have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America’s first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans.

Drawing lessons from their own extensive experience, the authors warn that, as America distances itself from the core values which underlay its commercial and economic success during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it puts its own future prosperity and security at risk.

Japan’s inheritance of American culture

The book also explores how American managerial culture has spread throughout the world. In particular it examines the impact of the US occupation of Japan on the social and manufacturing mores of that country and explains how America’s inherited style of management interacted with Japanese traditions.

This is an original exploration of the dramatic and far-reaching consequences of the Puritans’ ‘gift’ to America – the ethos which produced the early success of America and what came to be known as the American dream.