Walt Disney's America

by Christopher Finch

the book tells how America influenced Walt Disney, which in turn influenced America.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

301 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is an artist and a photographer who has had one person shows in New York and California, and he is the author of almost thirty non-fiction books including the best sellers Rainbow: the Stormy Life of Judy Garland, The Art of Walt Disney, Jim Henson: the Works, and Norman Rockwell's America. Recently he has embarked on a series of noir-inflected mystery novels set in New York in the late 1960s and featuring the private investigator Alex Novalis. The first of these, Good Girl, Bad Girl, is to be published by Thomas & Mercer in 2013. These books draw on his own experiences in the New York art world at a time when today's SoHo was an urban wilderness with rats frolicking in the gutters and artists eking out a living in barren loft spaces. He is married to Linda Rosenkrantz, an author and a co-founder of the website Nameberry.

Reviews

[Victoria Mullins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so pretty! Absolutely full of stunning Disney prints 😻

[Candy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gives new insight on Walt Disney his process creations and way of thinking. It's a wonderful and imaginative read

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

What an interesting read! I love Disney, and this book was a look at Disney and his company, not from today, but from 1978. It was a little strange to read about Disney and his company without reading about The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, and the portion that talked about what EPCOT will be as opposed to what it is also caught my eye. Having never been to EPCOT, I can't compare the author's understanding of what EPCOT would be to what it actually turned into, but I still enjoyed reading about what magical space the Disney company "would be" producing.

In short, this book is definitely dated, but provides a different era's view of Disney and his creations.