The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life.

National Review | February 23, 1998| | Copyright

The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, by Steven Watts (Houghton Miffflin, 526 pp., $30)

Steven Watts is rather a Ludwig von Drake of a biographer for Walt Disney. Like Disney's egg-headed duck, Watts is a professor (at the University of Missouri) with a tendency to over-explain the obvious, though he often manages to be interesting and informative along the way. He knows his subject thoroughly, can write about it readably, and has packed lots of new and useful information into this volume. As a self-confessed Disney fan since childhood, Watts ...

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