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the film industry was hardly immune to the downturn. The Disneys, however, were. While other studios saw their revenues dip precipitously—not so much because audiences declined, though they did, as because the studios had overextended themselves in a wild theater-buying spree in the 1920s, and the value of the property collapsed—the Disneys, without theaters or personal investments beyond the shares they owned in one of Uncle Robert’s get-rich-quick oil schemes and some plots of real estate, sailed along unscathed by the national trauma. Though they suffered financial wounds, most of them were self-inflicted, the result of Walt’s unwillingness to compromise the quality of his films. Rather than cutting costs, he kept increasing them. Even usually reserved Roy felt that he and Walt had somehow cheated the Depression by constantly reinvesting in their own studio rather than investing in the stock market. “Anything that we had saved up was all put into our business,” he wrote his parents in 1932.
Although in 1765 the Americans were not one people, they knew they had much in common. By 1787 they recognized what it was. They were a people who valued liberty and representative government. And well before 1787 they had formed a union among themselves. To be sure the central institution of that union lacked strength, but at least the union had survived. Moreover the people had a history, a short but glorious history of struggle and triumph in war. This history set apart the people of the 1780s from those of twenty years earlier. In a sense, of course, it had called them into being as a people.
The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff
“Look, winning has a price. And leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn’t want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn’t want to be challenged. And I earned that right. … You ask all my teammates: ‘The one thing about Michael Jordan is he never asked me to do something that he didn’t (bleeping) do.’ When people see this, they’re going to say: ‘He really wasn’t a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant.’ Well, that’s you. Because you never won anything. I wanted to win. But I wanted them to win and be a part of that as well.”
— Michael Jordan, at the end of Episode 7 of the ESPN Films documentary series “The Last Dance.”
‘People Were Afraid of Him’: Michael Jordan’s Competitive Fire Often Blistered His Chicago Bulls Teammates — Even as It Devoured His Foes
Dan Wiederer
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