Book Review: Walt Disney and the Quest for Community May 27, 2008George 6 Walt Disney and the Quest for Community by Steve Mannheim (2003, 199 pages). Steve Mannheim has written a wonderful academic treatise on Walt [...]
Disneyland The Nickel Tour, a book review May 19, 2008April 22, 2017George 16 Disneyland the Nickel Tour, a book review Disneyland the Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey Through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on [...]
Book Review: Walt’s People Volume 1 May 6, 2008George 1 Walt’s People Volume 1: Talking Disney With The Artists Who Knew Him by Didier Ghez. (2005, 272 pages.) Didier Ghez runs two very [...]
Book Review: The Making of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park April 28, 2008George 4 The Making of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park by Melody Malmberg (1998, 160 pages) For Animal Kingdom fans, there isn’t a lot of [...]
Book Review: Working With Walt April 21, 2008George 1 Working with Walt: Interviews With Disney Artists by Don Peri (2008, 246 pages). This is a quick and thoroughly enjoyable collection of interviews [...]
Book Review: Realityland by David Koenig April 14, 2008George 7 Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World by David Koenig (334 pages, 2007). Andrew and I met David at MouseFest 2007 and heard [...]
Disneyland: Inside Story by Randy Bright March 3, 2008June 11, 2019George 7 Disneyland: Inside Story by Randy Bright Sometimes you run across a book that’s so important and so impossibly good that you don’t realize [...]
Book Review: The Animated Man February 27, 2008January 25, 2020George 2 I just finished reading Michael Barrier’s biography The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. In my opinion, this is one of the [...]
Daily Figment 166: Book Review – The Disney Villain February 17, 2008George 2 The Disney Villain is a beautiful work by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, two of Walt’s Nine Old Men. I’m not sure if [...]
Daily Figment 158 – Book Review: Inside the Mouse February 4, 2008George 6 Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World, The Project on Disney. 1995, 250 pages. Did you ever have a book that [...]