Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history Walt Disney.Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films-most notably Snow White Fantasia and Bambi. In his superb biography Neal Gabler shows us how over the course of two decades Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated he built a synergistic empire that combined film television theme parks music book publishing and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man-of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyUSA Today Biography of the Year