Full name: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

Author: David A. Price Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Business, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307265753 9780307278296 0307265757 0307278298

The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it. With the help of visionary businessman Steve Jobs and animating genius John Lasseter, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all the way up through the landmark films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and others. David A. Price goes behind the scenes of the corporate feuds between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as between Steve Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally he explores Pixar's complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown. Similar books: American Icon by Bryce G. Hoffman Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton DisneyWar by James B. Stewart The Upstarts by Brad Stone McDonald's by John F. Love On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles The Google Story by David A. Vise Giants of Enterprise by Richard S. Tedlow Wheels for the World by Douglas Brinkley The PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson The Men Who Would Be King by Nicole LaPorte The HP Way by David Packard McIlhenny's Gold by Jeffrey Rothfeder From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor by Jerry Della Femina The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris Crazy Rich by Jerry Oppenheimer Fordlandia by Greg Grandin The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston