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Walt Disney : the triumph of the American imagination

Author: Neal Gabler
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2006.
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A portrait of the private life and public career of Walt Disney ranges from his deprived youth, to his contributions to the art of animation, to his visionary creation of the first synergistic entertainment empire, to his reclusive and lonely private world.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Biographies
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Gabler, Neal.
Walt Disney.
New York : Knopf, 2006
(DLC) 2006045257
(OCoLC)65644828
Named Person: Walt Disney; Walt Disney
Material Type: Biography, Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Neal Gabler
ISBN: 9780307265968 030726596X
OCLC Number: 232315401
Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Awards: Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2006
Description: 1 online resource (xx, 851 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Details: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Contents: 1. Escape --
2. Go-getter --
3. Wonderland --
4. The mouse --
5. The cult --
6. Folly --
7. Parnassus --
8. Two wars --
9. Adrift --
10. City on a hill --
11. Slouching toward utopia.
Responsibility: Neal Gabler.

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A portrait of the private life and public career of Walt Disney ranges from his deprived youth, to his contributions to the art of animation, to his visionary creation of the first synergistic entertainment empire, to his reclusive and lonely private world.

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