Walt Disney
Hollywood's Dark Prince
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2.6 • 25 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Based on four years of intense research and exclusive interviews with numerous associates, friends and relations of Disney, Marc Eliot’s explosive book presents the dark side of Walt Disney. From his 25 year association with the FBI as an informant rooting our Communists, subversives and Jews, to his phobic behavior – obsessive hand-washing, heavy drinking, sexual inadequacies, and his life long search for his real mother – Eliot shows how these psycho-sexual conflicts drove him to despair and found expression in his animated characters and billion-dollar empire.
Customer Reviews
Yikes. Don't it seriously.
While interesting to consider this more complicated look Walt Disney, it is impossible to take seriously. The extraordinary leaps of imagination trying to fill in and flesh out personal details strains credibility. If one overlooks the numerous typos per page and sticks to the intended point, the reader is also confronted with incorrect dates, timelines, names, and absurd scenarios easily proved wrong with minimal research. The conjecture is off the rails and thus dilutes any kernel of truth it was after, with more than a bit of bias slathered around. This book is for absolute completist Disney history readers only, for a laugh and gasp at the degree of distortion on display here.
Professor Marvel I presume?
Great expose of a more human more broken man. The author didn’t just pull back the curtain to expose a near fake Uncle Walt. He ripped the curtain down.
In an article Walt sat for he said “ Walt Disney doesn’t smoke, I smoke. Walt Disney doesn’t drink, I drink. Walt Disney doesn’t cuss, I cuss.”
The problem I did have at the book seems the Author copied the first couple chapters of Bob Thomas’ Walt Disney: An American Original