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Walt Disney: An American Original

Disciplines:
biography

Summary

Bob Thomas's authorized biography of Walt Disney — the standard single-volume biography, drawing on company archives and the cooperation of Disney's family and colleagues.

Core Contribution

The definitive biography of Walt Disney: his Kansas City years, the creation of Mickey Mouse, Snow White as the bet-the-company gamble that paid off, the Disney studio's transformation from animation to theme parks, and Epcot as his final unfulfilled vision. Thomas had full access to Disney company archives and extensive interviews with people who knew Disney. The sympathetic but not hagiographic portrait.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

American Business Biography

Allied Works

Designing Disney The Imagineering Way

Contemporaries & Peers

Designing Disney The Innovators

Minds Influenced

Disney Studies Entertainment History

Intellectual Posterity

Disney Studies

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