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William Post (June 27, 1927 – February 10, 2024) was an American businessman and inventor. Born to Dutch immigrants and raised in Michigan, Post became the plant manager for Hekman Biscuit company, a cookie company he worked for since he was sixteen years old. As plant manager, he was approached by Kellogg's to create a toaster pastry which later became known as the Pop-Tart, gaining credit for leading the team that invented the confection. He eventually became senior vice president of Keebler's until his retirement at age 56. After he retired, Post worked as a consultant and brand ambassador until 2003. Early life Post was born on June 27, 1927, to Henry Post and Johanna Jongsta in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His parents were poor Dutch immigrants and his father worked as a truck driver, carrying out used ashes from coal furnaces. Post's family lived on the south side of Grand Rapids and he attended high school at Grand Rapids Christian High School. At the age of 16, Post washed trucks part-time for Hekman Biscuit Company, a cookie company which would later become part of Keebler. After graduating high school in 1945, he was drafted one year later into the US Army Air Corps and served in occupied Japan. When Post returned to Michigan, he attended Calvin College for two years then returned to his job at Hekman Biscuit Company. Post became the plant manager of the company at the age of 21, managing all aspects of the business. Pop-Tarts In September 1963, Kellogg's approached Post asking if his plant could produce a toaster pastry to compete with rival Post Cereals (no relation) which was creating a pastry of their own. Although his boss did not take the idea seriously, he allowed Post to pursue the project. Post told Kellogg's he could have something in two weeks. Post and his team rapidly developed the recipe, which he refined by bringing samples home for his children to test almost daily. According to Post, he "had to break every rule in the book", developing about ten thousand samples in his laboratory by hand. The pastries were initially called "fruit scones" but the name was changed to "Pop-Tarts", an allusion to the pop art trend at the time. The first batch of Pop-Tarts was released to grocery stores in 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio, and quickly sold out. In 1967, Post thought icing would be an ideal addition to the product. Some people at the company believed that toasting would cause the icing to melt, but it did not. That same year, Post moved to Illinois to work at Keebler's corporate office, eventually becoming senior vice president. He retired at the age of 56. He worked as a consultant and brand ambassador for Kellogg's for another 20 years. He helped develop a number of other products including Nutri-Grain bars and Rice Krispies Treats. After Kellogg's acquired Keebler in 2001, Post and his wife moved back to Grand Rapids two years later. Throughout his life, Post maintained that the Pop-Tart's creation was a team effort, stating, "I assembled an amazing team that developed Kellogg's concept of a shelf-stable toaster pastry into a fine product that we could bring to market in the span of just four months". Later life In his retirement, Post would visit schools to tell his story to students, telling them how he, the son of immigrants, attained success through hard work. According to his son, he would always tell students "If you want to be noticed, always do more than is expected". He would then give students samples from his unlimited supply of Pop-Tarts. He had a stockpile of them in his car, which had the license plate POPTART. Post was married to his wife Florence for 72 years until her death in 2020. They had two children. Post died of heart failure on February 10, 2024, at the age of 96. Explanatory notes References Kelly, Mary Louise; Juana Summers (February 15, 2024). "Remembering the Co-creator of the Pop Tart". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved March 13, 2024.. Discover the William Post popular books. Find the top 100 most popular William Post books.
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Windhorse
Kaushik BaruaTo restore their religion in its home, they have to first relinquish their faith. A group of Tibetan rebels set up an armed resistance movement against Chinese occupation def...
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The Generals Have No Clothes
William M. ArkinThe definitive book about America’s perpetual wars and how to end them from bestselling author, military expert, and awardwinning journalist William M. Arkin.The first rule of perp...
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Stopover
William GerkenWhat will the world be like, the day after Tomorrow, for the lonely ones who will have talents that others will half fear, half envy? William Gerken describes this strange world in...
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The Typewriter Is Holy
Bill Morgan2014 ACKER AWARD WINNERAnyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of th...
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Life After Power
Jared CohenNew York Times BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States.F...
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No-Signal Area
Robert Perisic & Ellen Elias-BursacOleg and Nikolahustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalismhave come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobo...
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Crossing the Lines
Melvyn BraggFollowing The Soldier’s Return, heralded as “a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs” by the Washington Post, and the equally brilliant A Son of War, Melvyn ...
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Hatred in the Ashes
William W. JohnstoneIn a dystopian America, a madwoman has replaced the president, and now an exmercenary must set things rightfrom a USA Today–Bestselling author. While Ben Raines and his Rebe...
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Error of Judgement
Chris Mullin'Very occasionally a journalist starts an avalanche with a single gunshot... Chris Mullin and his TV colleagues belong in the glorious company."The Observer'One of the greatest fea...
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To Wager Her Heart
Tamera AlexanderSet against the real history of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation and the original Fisk University Jubilee Singers ensemble, To Wager Her Heart is a stirring love story about seek...
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From Baghdad to America
Jay KopelmanLieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman won the hearts of readers everywhere with his moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava from a hellish corner of Iraq. He opened the do...
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Circus of Dreams
John WalshSomething extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms o...
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Great Irish Reportage
John HorganReports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the firstever anthology of Irish reportage.Alongside its worldfamous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known...
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The Earth Quakes
Subimal Misra & V. RamaswamySubimal Misra anarchist, activist, antiestablishment, experimental 'antiwriter' was a literary genius, and among India's greatest contemporary masters. Misra's works are confront...
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Frame-Up
Harold Weisberg & James Earl RayBack in print with its original title, Harold Weisberg’s detailed and devastating analysis of the Martin Luther King assassination is as timely as ever. Originally published in 197...
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After the White House
Max J. SkidmoreWhat exactly has Bill Clinton been doing since he left office? What can he expect to accomplish? What have his predecessors in his position done? Many presidents have had enormous ...
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Tiger, Tiger
Johanna SkibsrudShortlisted for the 2019 Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short FictionA collection of intrepid and incisive stories from the Scotiabank Giller Prizewinning author of The Sentimentalists...
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The Brethren
Bob Woodward & Scott ArmstrongThe Brethren is the first detailed behindthescenes account of the Supreme Court in action.Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view...
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New York Blues
Eric BrownHal Halliday runs a missing persons business in mid 21st century New York. It is a city that is drowning in refugees after terrorist outrages have left much of America a radioactiv...
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Jesse James
Frank TriplettThere is no western outlaw more infamous and notorious than Jesse James. A Confederate guerilla during the Civil War, he and his brother, as the leaders of numerous gangs of the Wi...
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Osama bin Laden Files
The Combating Terrorism Center“An intriguing glimpse into the aging alQaeda leader’s thoughts as his life neared its end.” Washington Post “A sort of anthropology of a terror network.” The New York Times “A rar...
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The Impeachment Report
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary & Alan DershowitzThe Official Report of the House Judiciary Committee on the ImpeachmentPlus the Dissenting Views from Republicans, the full Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The TrumpUk...
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Last Word
Mark Lane & Robert K. TanenbaumMark Lane tried the only U.S. court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA c...
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More Than You Can Say
Paul TordayThe bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchanesque thriller.'Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strang...
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Airlift to America
Tom ShachtmanThis is the longhidden saga of how a handful of Americans and East Africans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to transport to, or s...
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Proof of Conspiracy
Seth AbramsonInstant New York Times Bestseller"A richly documented indictment of power and corruption." Kirkus Reviews Through diligent research, Seth Abramson exposes a story that U.S. medi...
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Defying Gravity
Roger McGoughIn this evocative and personal collection of poems Roger McGough comes to terms with painful memories as well as confronting fears that are universal. Here he remembers his father ...
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The Mueller Report
Robert S. Mueller, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice & Alan DershowitzNOW A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER. There has never been a more important political investigation tha...
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COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM POST
William TaylorTitle: "Journey of Impact: The Complete Biography of William Post" Description: Embark on an immersive exploration of the life and legacy of William Post in this comprehensive eb...
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Finding Your Path
Amba BrownThe perfect gift for any school leaver! A joyous and practical book to help school leavers find their direction in life, because working out what you want to do once you leave scho...
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Die verlorenen Briefe des William Woolf
Helen CullenWilliam Woolf hat den wunderbarsten Job der Welt: In einer Londoner Sammelstelle für verlorene Briefe bringt er jeden Tag verirrte Botschaften auf den richtigen Weg. Dabei scheint ...
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Life Among the Apaches
John C. CremonyOne of the original seventeenthcentury historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians.John C. Cremony’s first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest ...
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Listening to Britain
Jeremy A Crang & Paul AddisonFrom May to September 1940, a period that saw some of the most dramatic events in British history including the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the opening stages...
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Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory
Donna TrueitThe first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fiftyyear career an...