The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney

"The single most illuminating work on America and the movies" (The Kansas City Star): the story of how a shy boy from Chicago crashed Hollywood and created the world's first multimedia entertainment empire-one that shapes American popular culture to this day.

When Walter Elias Disney moved to Hollywood in 1923, the twenty-one-year-old cartoonist seemed an unlikely businessman-and yet within less than two decades, he'd transformed his small animation studio into one of the most successful an...