Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination - Softcover

"Mesmerizing. . . . There's nothing Mickey Mouse about this terrific biography. . . . The definitive portrait of Walt Disney, the Dream-King." --Washington Post Book World"Gabler's restless eye invigorates each page. . . . Part of the author's formidable achievement is to take the intricacies of Disney's devoted artistry and intertwine them with [his] life." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Far outshines any previous Disney bio, both in scope and in specificity. The domestic details are revelatory. . . . Walt Disney is looking at us-seemingly for the first time." --Entertainment Weekly "Illuminating. . . . Engrossing. . . . Gabler paints a vivid portrait."--The New York Times Book Review

A definitive portrait of a giant of twentieth-century American popular culture offers a meticulously researched study of the private life and public career of Walt Disney, from his deprived and disciplined youth, to his seminal contributions to the art of animation, to his visionary creation of the first synergistic entertainment empire, to his reclusive and lonely private world. Reprint.