Books like Walt Disney by Thomas, Bob

Richard Schickel traces Walt Disney’s rise from a restless youth to the founder of a global entertainment empire, exploring the creation of Mickey Mouse and the lasting appeal of the "Disney version".

A biography of the renowned filmmaker and theme‑park creator Walt Disney, illustrated with family photographs and original drawings of characters and scenes from his films.

A detailed exploration of Disney’s animation history, showcasing techniques, story development, and interviews with original animators.

Inside the battle that tore the Walt Disney Company apart, James B. Stewart chronicles the clash between CEO Michael Eisner and chairman Roy Disney, using exclusive documents and interviews to reveal the corporate war that reshaped an entertainment icon.

Everyone remembers him as the creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. His films and characters inspired the great Disney theme parks. A creative genius, Walt Disney brought love and laughter to children everywhere. Now for the first time, Marc Eliot presents the real Walt Disney. The author reveals Walt Disney's twenty-five-year association with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, serving as a Hollywood-based. Official informant before being promoted to the rank of Special Agent in Charge, rooting out Communists, subversives, and Jews. A lifelong anti-Semite, he absorbed his prejudice from his father, a strict fundamentalist who believed in corporal punishment and forced child labor. Walt Disney's phobic behavior is examined in detail, as is his obsessive hand-washing, heavy drinking, and sexual inadequacies. Unwilling to accept his father's violence as a form of love, and. Unwilling to "prove" his own identity, he feared he had actually been adopted in infancy and was illegitimate. He spent a lifetime searching for his real mother. Marc Eliot shows how these psycho-sexual conflicts drove Walt to the depths of lifelong despair and how they found expression in his "classic" animated characters and films, now so deeply embedded in American culture. In fact, they were created by a man who used the wealth and prestige they gave him to mold a. Nightmare empire of vengeance and power. Told against a panoramic view of Hollywood's golden age of glamour and backdoor politics, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a fascinating work that concludes with a look into the Disney empire as it exists today.