The Disney Version

“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