"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review
From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour,[...]
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion pi[...]
A definitive portrait of a giant of twentieth-century American popular culture offers a meticulously researched study of the private life and public career of Walt Disney, from his deprived and disciplined youth, to his seminal contributions to the art of animation, to his visionary creation of the [...]
His classic films illuminated everyone's childhood. The theme parks are on every tourist itinerary. The movie empire is one of Hollywood's biggest. Walt Disney is one of the few men who unquestionably changed our culture. And Neal Gabler is the first author to have had complete access to the Disney [...]
Walt Disney er en av de mest innflytelsesrike og nyskapende skikkelser i amerikansk underholdningsindustri og kulturhistorie. Han har tidligere blitt fremstilt som antisemitt, iherdig antikommunist, spion for Hitler og ensom alkoholiker. Med full tilgang til Disneys arkiver har den høyt respekterte[...]