Walt Dreamers Me
Walt Dreamers Me

Author: Joseph Patrick Cosgrove

Publisher:

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780989354905

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"I cannot imagine living in a world without Walt Disney." Joe Cosgrove Walt Disney's life long journey comes to life as breaking news headlines that entertain and engage dreamers of all ages. This novel storytelling is based on Joe's firsthand experience as well as from friends and mentors who worked closely with Walt during the 1930's through the 1960's. Readers will enter the circle of nearness of Walt Disney's life journey as he transform's and revolutionizes movie cartoons into a powerful new art form. Walt becomes the Founding Father of modern movie animation with the release of his first full length feature film, Snow White. This was the prelude of Walt's bigger dream to create something totally new under the sun. Driven by endless curiosity and courage, Walt Disney's dreams gave birth to the greatest real estate developments and tourist attractions in history with Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Today Walt's impossible dream is still growing. For all those people who helped make his dream come true with the opening of Disneyland in 1955, Walt created a special place called Club 33. Joe Cosgrove was there the day the Club opened in 1967. Club 33 was a secluded hideaway in the Happiest Place on earth for many years until the LA Times wrote a feature titled: "The Most Exclusive Club in the World." Joe reveals some fascinating Club 33 stories during its early secret years. This is also the story of other extraordinary dreamers, visionaries, leaders, innovators and heroes whose lives one day serendipitously intersected with Joe Cosgrove. These ordinary people who did extraordinary things include Joshua Meador, Harrison "Buzz" Price, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Steve Allen, Charles E. Fuller and Billy Graham who are just some of the personalities in this wide reaching story of notable people who help change our world for the better. WALT DREAMERS ME celebrates the American heritage of individual liberty with headline making news of exceptional individuals motivated by the highest possible standards of excellence who created innovations that greatly changed our imagination, our culture and our world for the better. These true life adventure headline stories are filled with heroes, mentors, tricksters, sidekicks, scoundrels and scallywags just like those we read about in the newspaper every day. These very universal caricatures are seen in the classic stories in the Bible. Walt Disney brought these caricatures to life in such films as Snow White, Pinocchio and Cinderella. It is our intention that our readers accompany each person headlined in order to relate to each of them in a new powerful and personal way.

Lead Like Walt
Lead Like Walt

Author: Pat Williams

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0757321968

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Whether you are building a small business from the ground up or managing a multinational company, you can learn the 7 key traits for leadership success from one of the greatest business innovators and creative thinkers of the 20th century: Walt Disney. Whether you know him as the first to produce cartoons in Technicolor, the mastermind behind the theme park Disneyland, or the founder of the largest entertainment conglomerate, Walt's story of creativity, perseverance in spite of obstacles, and achieving goals resonates and inspires as much today as it ever has. Author Pat Williams began studying the life and leadership example of Walt Disney as he struggled to build an NBA franchise, the Orlando Magic. Since he was trying to accomplish a goal similar to so many of Walt's—starting with nothing and building a dream from the ground up—he realized that Walt could teach him what he needed to know. And indeed he did. Through Walt Disney's leadership example, Pat found 7 key leadership traits that all great leaders must possess: Vision, Communication, People Skills, Character, Competence, Boldness, and A Serving Heart. Through never-before-heard Walt stories and pragmatic principles for exceeding business goals, you'll learn how to build those skills and implement them to be effective in any leadership arena. As you discover the life of this great leader, you'll realize that no goal is too great and no dream too daring for anyone who leads like Walt.

How to Be Like Walt
How to Be Like Walt

Author: Pat Williams

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 0757394469

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How to Be Like is a “character biography” series: biographies that also draw out important lessons from the life of their subjects. In this new book—by far the most exhaustive in the series—Pat Williams tackles one of the most influential people in recent history. While many recent biographies of Walt Disney have reveled in the negative, this book takes an honest but positive look at the man behind the myth. For the first time, the book pulls together all the various strands of Disney’s life into one straightforward, easy-to-read tale of imagination, perseverance, and optimism. Far from a preachy or oppressive tome, this book scrapes away the minutiae to capture the true magic of a brilliant maverick. Key Features This is for the millions of Disney fans—those who admire his artistry or his business savvy or the products of his namesake company. The tone and style of the book will capture the imagination of younger readers, especially teens, in the same way as How to Be Like Mike. Support within the Disney world includes the daughter and grandson of Walt Disney; nephew and former vice chairman Roy Disney; and numerous Disney insiders who are already spreading the word.

Dreamers and Deceivers
Dreamers and Deceivers

Author: Glenn Beck

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 147678390X

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"The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck"--

21 Great Leaders
21 Great Leaders

Author: Pat Williams

Publisher: Barbour Publishing

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1630586943

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To improve your own leadership influence, study the lives of great leaders—you’ll find 21 of them in Pat Williams’ newest book. Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, senior vice president of the Orlando Magic, and author of 90 books, Pat Williams has devoted much of his life to the study of leadership—and shares the stories and principles of individuals from George Washington to Nelson Mandela, Billy Graham to Walt Disney, and Margaret Thatcher to Steve Jobs. Organized around Pat’s “Seven Sides of Leadership”—Vision, Communication, People Skills, Character, Competence, Boldness, Serving Heart—21 Great Leaders will provide challenge, encouragement, and affirmation for your own leadership journey.

Travels with Figment: On the Road in Search of Disney Dreams
Travels with Figment: On the Road in Search of Disney Dreams

Author: Marty Sklar

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1368045154

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When you've spent fifty-four years at Disney, the first ten at Walt's side, you accumulate a lot of stories. As Marty tried to answer the most asked question "when are you writing your next book?" he mined his memory for stories he hasn't told before. In this fresh volume, Marty regales readers with tales from his career.

Walt’s People –
Walt’s People –

Author: Didier Ghez

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 1465368418

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The Walt's People series, edited by Didier Ghez, is a collection of the best interviews ever conducted with Disney artists. Contributors to the series include noted Disney experts Robin Allan, Paul F. Anderson, Mike Barrier, Albert Becattini, John Canemaker, John Culhane, Pete Docter, Christopher Finch, J.B. Kaufman, Jim Korkis, Christian Renaut, Linda Rosenkrantz, Dave Smith, and Charles Solomon. Walt's People - Volume 11 features in-depth interviews with Ray Aragon, Frank Armitage, Brad Bird, Carl Bongirno, Roger Broggie, George Bruns, Ed Catmull, Don R. Christensen, Andreas Deja, Jules Engel, Joe Hale, John Hench, Mark Henn, John Hubley, Glen Keane, Ted Kierscey, Ward Kimball, I. Klein, Mike Lah, Eric Larson, Ed Love, Daniel MacManus, Tom Nabbe, Carl Nater, Dale Oliver, Walt Pfeiffer, Jacques Rupp, David Snyder, Iwao Takamoto, Shirley Temple, Frank Thomas, Ruthie Tompson, and Richard Williams. It contains hundreds of new stories about the Studio and its artists and should delight even the most serious historians and enthusiasts. Walt's People is a notable new source of historical treasures and should give new energy to the world of Disney research! This book is neither authorized, sponsored nor endorsed by the Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. It is an unofficial and unauthorized book. The mention of names and places associated with the Walt Disney Company and its businesses are not intended to infringe on any existing copyrights or trademarks of the Walt Disney Company, but are used in context for educational purposes. The opinions and statements expressed in these interviews are solely the opinions and perspectives of the authors and the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and policy of the Walt Disney Company and its businesses.

Dreamers of the Day
Dreamers of the Day

Author: Mary Doria Russell

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1588366758

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A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel “Marvelous . . . a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in modern history.”—The Washington Post Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is freed for the first time from her mother’s withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnes—with her plainspoken American opinions—is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed forever. With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today’s headlines.

Walt's Disneyland
Walt's Disneyland

Author: Marcy Smothers

Publisher: Disney Editions

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781368052153

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A immersive guide to the attractions and landmarks Walt helped create in his original Magic Kingdom! Walt Disney's personal imprint remains firmly intact at Disneyland. Walt's Disneyland allows guests to walk around Disneyland identifying the attractions and landmarks Walt championed, touching what he touched, and seeing his original Magic Kingdom through his eyes. Walt's Disneyland is organized land by land, clockwise, beginning with Main Street, U.S.A. then on to Adventureland, Frontierland, New Orleans Square, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland. A must-have to add to your Disney Parks collection!