Camp

Life, Leadership, and Why You Never Stop Paddling

De: Michael D. Eisner, John McPhee

Narrado por: Michael D. Eisner, Grover Gardner

Updated and expanded for its 20th anniversary, Camp is former Disney CEO Michael Eisner's coming-of-age story about his time in camp and how the indispensable lessons he learned there continue to influence him in business and in life.

Over the years, as a camper and a counselor, Michael Eisner absorbed the life lessons that come from sitting in the stern of a canoe or gathering around a campfire at night. In this deeply personal memoir, he recounts his experiences at one remarkable summer camp and examines how they helped turn him into the man he is today.

Camp is Eisner’s ode to Keewaydin—a Vermont camp that four generations of the Eisner family have attended for 100 years—as well as a guide to growing up, building relationships, and developing the tools of leadership. Through heartwarming anecdotes from his time spent at Keewaydin and stories from his life in the upper echelons of American business that illustrate the camp’s continued influence, Eisner creates a touching and insightful portrait of his own youth, as well as a resounding declaration of summer camp as an invaluable national institution. With new material from the author on the continued impact Keewaydin has had on his life in the twenty years since the memoir’s first publication, Camp remains an important personal chronicle of the success mindset and of the character-building that a child can find in a remote corner of the Vermont woods and carry into adulthood.

©2005 John McPhee; 2025 by The Eisner Foundation, Inc. (P)2025 Audible, Inc.

Not worth the time

As much as the author might be a famous and renowned figure in the Disney World, the is, unfortunately, not a good writer, not a story-teller. Although the book gives the scent of the heart-felt, fond memories of this camp he carried through all his life, and it, undoubtedly, shaped his character and changed lives of countless many, he couldn't tell a single captivating story, not from his boyhood, nor by relating stories of others. This book will only be interesting to the people who had actually attended this camp. It is a love song to this man Wobus, aka Alfred Hare- also, unquestionably, a great man and a legacy of the camp. But author couldn't tell a single interesting or funny story about him either, despite openly showing love and respect for this man. This book would not be published, I think, if for not who he (the author himself) was, and for respect many other people had for Mr Hare and for the camp as an organization with a century-long history. i do not recommend.

This was not a story for me

I waited for the life lessons, but my take away was that wealthy families can go to months long summer camps on the East Coast. While it sounds bucolic and wonderful. I didn’t get life lessons from this book.