Reviews for Quality Management

The average rating for Quality Management based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-26 00:00:00 Alexis Barton My "year of Hamilton" continued with reading this! This is a book about Alexander Hamilton that was published by my employer, the Family Research Council, in 2000--long before the Ron Chernow biography and Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway hip-hop musical that re-ignited interest in Hamilton. The author, Christopher S. Yates, was a Witherspoon Fellow (internship/academic program) at FRC. This book is short--90 pages--so it might be a great biography for someone to read who is not ambitious enough to tackle Chernow's 750-page volume. What is unique about this volume, though, is its focus on the evidence for Hamilton's Christian faith. This is something that is basically glossed over by both Chernow and Miranda. However, the evidence is good that Hamilton was a committed Christian in his youth, may have drifted away from the faith somewhat during the height of his career, but then returned to it in the last years before his death as a result of a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. (To be fair, Miranda does allude to this in his moving song, "It's Quiet Uptown," which follows the death of Hamilton's oldest son in a duel of his own.) In fact, in 1802 (2 years before his death), Hamilton made a proposal to create a "Christian Constitutional Society" that bears a strong resemblance to Family Research Council and our allied family policy councils in the states. The full text of that letter is included in this paperback volume, as are the testimony of two clergymen (one Episcopal, one Presbyterian) who ministered to Hamilton on his deathbed and recounted his strong profession of faith in Christ as his redeemer. Hamilton apparently never actually joined a church, and of course his personal behavior was not always up to biblical standards (since he engaged in and confessed to an adulterous affair), but this book makes a good case that he should be considered a believer in Jesus Christ.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-09-20 00:00:00 Jeff Borys hgy