onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Walt_Disney_Biographies/Walt_Disney_An_American_Original');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0786860278'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" rel="nofollow">Walt Disney: An American Original

by Bob Thomas

This is the first major Walt Disney biography, written (with the cooperation of the Disney family) in the early '70s.

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by Neal Gabler

This recent, thick book (912 pages!) is considered the best and most meticulously-researched biography of Walt Disney.

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by Marc Eliot

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This book is called the first truly unauthorized biography, and in the case of Disney, unauthorized is important because all previous "authorized" biographies had to pass the scrutiny of Disney Studios. Without manuscript approval, the Disney archives were off-limits to the author, although their contents could be gleaned from other works on his subject. This volume includes interviews -- both anonymous and attributed -- with former Disney animators.

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by Michael Barrier

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by Leonard Mosley

This book, released in 2002, is apparently riddled with errors and half-truths about Walt Disney. Sounds like an interesting read to me!

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Ray Bradbury, edited by Amy Boothe Green, Howard E. Green

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In this collection of remembrances, more than one hundred people recall the ways their lives were touched by this complex, remarkable man: animators who trained under him; directors inspired by his vision; actors who sought him out for advice and support; and family members who knew him best of all.

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by Katherine Greene, Richard Greene

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A stunning, elaborately illustrated biography of the man who had an immeasurable impact upon American culture. This timely biography, told through the captivating and vivid words of those who knew, and studied Walt Disney, provides the most revelatory portrait to date of the man who has become an icon of American culture. More than 70 men and women were interviewed, including friends, employees, and historians, adversaries and rivals, and, most especially, family members, who add a special "private" contest to a very public work.

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by Steven Watts

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Although the Disney studio was hailed as a dream factory, there was plenty of hard work and hard-nosed business deals behind the facade. Drawing on interviews and research from Disney archives, Watts shows how Disney and mid-America influenced each other, from the birth of the animation empire, through the "libertarian populism" of the Fifties film, TV, and theme-park efforts, to Walt's untimely death in 1966. Other topics include Disney's pioneering role in business "integration" (using one side of the business to promote another side), his idealization of small-town life, his contagious creative enthusiasm, and his growing conservatism and abiding contempt for unions. Whether selling World War II to an anxious home front, lifting spirits in the Depression, soothing America's Cold War fears, or catering to the new leisure and consumer society, Disney had a unique rapport with average Americans. Portrayed as neither devil nor saint, Disney emerges as a human and sometimes sympathetic figure. This lively, witty, and insightful study is likely to become a standard.

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