Walt Disney

<b>ONE OF <i>THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER</i>'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME - The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.<br></b><br> 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 <i>Snow White Fantasia </i>and <i>Bambi</i>. 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. <p/> <b>Winner of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize for Biography and <i>USA Today</i> Biography of the Year</b>