The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year.
Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man-of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life.
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.
In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry.
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 .
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney
