Disney
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وصف الناشر
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - artist, entrepreneur, innovator, filmmaker, and theme-park impresario - gave birth to a sprawling entertainment enterprise that, in the half-century since his death in 1966, remains a fixture in the culture unlike any other. A titan of the American Century, Walt Disney was also one of its most contradictory figures. A genius who got only as far as the ninth grade, he seemed to be many things other than what he really was. One of Hollywood's most successful men, he played polo on the weekends but otherwise shunned any form of socializing, driving himself home from work each night in his Packard roadster in time to play with his children. At the peak of his career, he was known to millions of Americans as the smiling, avuncular man with the slicked hair, pencil-thin mustache, and gentle voice who introduced the most wholesome show on television every Sunday evening - and to the people who worked for him as a fiery and impatient man who believed the only way to do anything was his way. Walt Disney was, in short, quite a story.
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Not a whole lot here
I purchased this book thru BookBub for $1.99, and I received just what I paid for. If you are looking for something more than an expanded wikipedia entry, this book is NOT for you.
The author's style is not very sophisticated, so it is an easy read, and I learned a number of things about Mr. Disney's private life that I did not know. However, there is little analysis of his creativity and business acumen, and the book itself is not an examination of the man's genius but a timeline of his life in paragraph form.
Great Read
This book is well-written and fast-paced and presents Walt Disney not as a stick figure but as a flesh-and-blood man of extraordinary talents who also had his flaws. I disagree. With the reviewer who said this book is fluff. I found it the opposite and learned much about Disney and the people around him that I never knew before. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a great read.