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- Book Title
- Unlikely Celebrity : Bill Sackter's Triumph over Disability
- Publication Name
- The Unlikely Celebrity
- Title
- The Unlikely Celebrity
- Subtitle
- Bill Sackter's Triumph Over Disability
- Contributor
- Barry Morrow (Foreword by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780809321346
- ISBN
- 9780809321346
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Education, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- People with Disabilities, Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, General, Special Education / Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities
- Release Year
- 1999
- Release Date
- 03/03/1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 2.4 Oz
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Thomas Walz tells the story of Bill Sackter, a man who spent nearly half a century in a Minnesota mental institution and emerged to blossom into a most unlikely celebrity. Bill Sackter was committed to the Faribault State Hospital at the age of seven, there to remain until he was in his fifties. At the time of his commitment, Bill's father had recently died; thus his sole contact with his family came through rare letters from his mother. Some years after his discharge from Faribault as a result of the movement to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill in the 1960s, Bill enjoyed a serendipitous encounter with a young college student and part-time musician, Barry Morrow. Bill became part of the Morrow family and a regular in Morrow's music group. When Morrow accepted a job at the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa, Bill followed him to Iowa City and was put in charge of a small coffee service. Bill became an important part of the University of Iowa community, and Wild Bill's Coffeeshop developed into an institution. A cheerful man of great good will who was a harmonica virtuoso, Bill began to inspire affectionate legends, and his life as a celebrity began in earnest. He was named Iowa's Handicapped Person of the Year in 1977, and two television movies were made about his life --Bill, which earned Emmy awards for cowriter Barry Morrow and Mickey Rooney (as Bill) in 1981, and Bill on His Own in 1983. Years later, Morrow would earn an Oscar for his script of Rain Man. Through vignettes ranging from hilarious to near tragic. Walz reveals a remarkable human being. An account of Bill's life in an institution is necessarily part of the story, but there is much more: Bill's role in helping a young child recover from a coma, his menagerie of friends, his love for a pet parakeet, his late-life Bar Mitzvah, his failure as a woodworker, his success as Santa, and his dignified death at the age of seventy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809321343
ISBN-13
9780809321346
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1132846
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unlikely Celebrity : Bill Sackter's Triumph over Disability
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
People with Disabilities, Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, General, Special Education / Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Education, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
2.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv3006.S33w35 1998
Reviews
"With warmth and wit and engaging style-with respect for all the players in this saga-Old Tom [Bill Sackter's respectful appellation for Thomas Walz] takes us to a place where the air is clear. There, looking back, we see now that in our search to know Bill we were really looking for ourselves. His struggle was our struggle: that we might be good, too. What a happy, boundless idea."-Barry Morrow,from the Foreword, "With warmth and wit and engaging style--with respect for all the players in this saga--Old Tom [Bill Sackter's respectful appellation for Thomas Walz] takes us to a place where the air is clear. There, looking back, we see now that in our search to know Bill we were really looking for ourselves. His struggle was our struggle: that we might be good, too. What a happy, boundless idea." --Barry Morrow, from the Foreword, "Bill Sackter's life is the story of one man's fight for self-determination and dignity. Bill was a community hero, someone who symbolizes what is good and right about where we live and helps us understand what community means. To this end, Bill's is not a story of disability, but a story of dignity. Tom Walz gives voice to Bill Sackter and makes readers wish that they could have experienced the sense of community that Bill gave as a gift to those around him."—MichaelWehmeyer, Ph.D.,Director, The Arc's SeIf-Determination Program, The Arc of the United States, "With warmth and wit and engaging style—with respect for all the players in this saga—Old Tom [Bill Sackter's respectful appellation for Thomas Walz] takes us to a place where the air is clear. There, looking back, we see now that in our search to know Bill we were really looking for ourselves. His struggle was our struggle: that we might be good, too. What a happy, boundless idea." —Barry Morrow, from the Foreword, "Bill Sackter's life is the story of one man's fight for self-determination and dignity. Bill was a community hero, someone who symbolizes what is good and right about where we live and helps us understand what community means. To this end, Bill's is not a story of disability, but a story of dignity. Tom Walz gives voice to Bill Sackter and makes readers wish that they could have experienced the sense of community that Bill gave as a gift to those around him."— Michael Wehmeyer, Ph.D., Director, The Arc's SeIf-Determination Program, The Arc of the United States, "With warmth and wit and engaging style—with respect for all the players in this saga—Old Tom [Bill Sackter's respectful appellation for Thomas Walz] takes us to a place where the air is clear. There, looking back, we see now that in our search to know Bill we were really looking for ourselves. His struggle was our struggle: that we might be good, too. What a happy, boundless idea."—Barry Morrow,from the Foreword, "Bill Sackter's life is the story of one man's fight for self-determination and dignity. Bill was a community hero, someone who symbolizes what is good and right about where we live and helps us understand what community means. To this end, Bill's is not a story of disability, but a story of dignity. Tom Walz gives voice to Bill Sackter and makes readers wish that they could have experienced the sense of community that Bill gave as a gift to those around him."-- Michael Wehmeyer, Ph.D., Director, The Arc's SeIf-Determination Program, The Arc of the United States, "Bill Sackter's life is the story of one man's fight for self-determination and dignity. Bill was a community hero, someone who symbolizes what is good and right about where we live and helps us understand what community means. To this end, Bill's is not a story of disability, but a story of dignity. Tom Walz gives voice to Bill Sackter and makes readers wish that they could have experienced the sense of community that Bill gave as a gift to those around him."-MichaelWehmeyer, Ph.D.,Director, The Arc's SeIf-Determination Program, The Arc of the United States
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-006260
Dewey Decimal
[B]
Illustrated
Yes
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