Everyone remembers him as the creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. His films and characters inspired the great Disney theme parks. A creative genius, Walt Disney brought love and laughter to children everywhere. Now for the first time, Marc Eliot presents the real Walt Disney. The author reveals Walt Disney's twenty-five-year association with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, serving as a Hollywood-based official informant before being promoted to the rank of Special Agent in Charge, rooting out Communists, subversives, and Jews. A lifelong anti-Semite, he absorbed his prejudice from his father, a strict fundamentalist who believed in corporal punishment and forced child labor. Walt Disney's phobic behavior is examined in detail, as is his obsessive hand-washing, heavy drinking, and sexual inadequacies. Unwilling to accept his father's violence as a form of love, and unwilling to "prove" his own identity, he feared he had actually been adopted in infancy and was illegitimate. He spent a lifetime searching for his real mother. Marc Eliot shows how these psycho-sexual conflicts drove Walt to the depths of lifelong despair and how they found expression in his "classic" animated characters and films, now so deeply embedded in American culture. In fact, they were created by a man who used the wealth and prestige they gave him to mold a nightmare empire of vengeance and power. Told against a panoramic view of Hollywood's golden age of glamour and backdoor politics, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a fascinating work that concludes with a look into the Disney empire as it exists today.

Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince

Biographies & Memoirs

MARC ELIOT

Arts & Literature

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Literature & Fiction

LINDA SPALDING

Contemporary

Join the authors of “On Vermont Time ...” on a journey through life in the Green Mountains of Vermont. One minute it’s the 1950’s and the next it is present day. Each writer, poet, photographer and artist explores the many aspects of everyday life living in Vermont. They share stories of their escapades as kids; stories about growing up and even more stories as they live through adulthood and encourage the next generation of Vermonters. Even the photos found scattered throughout give you a bird’s-eye view of life in the second largest state in New England ... home to the best Maple Syrup, Cheese, Wines, Local Brews and much, much more. Oh and yes we can’t forget the best skiing anywhere. As you read this book you’ll have a chance to laugh, maybe to cry, but most importantly to feel like you’re a part of the trip. All ... “On Vermont Time ...” Here’s what others have said about “On Vermont Time ...” “Timothy Stetson has done something truly remarkable here. He has taken regional writing and brought it into sharper focus, creating an anthology that could almost be called “Neighborhood Writing”. Here we find an intimacy and appreciation of place that could only be expressed by insiders: real small town Vermonters.” -- Joseph A. Citro, author of Green Mountains, Dark Tales and Passing Strange “Your essays are like love letters to Vermont ...” -- Lesli Blount, Williston, VT

On Vermont Time ...

Travel

Bates, Roderick

Young, Lauren

Stetson, Timothy G

Hill, Lou

United States

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How Many Words Do You Want?: An Insider's Story of Print and Television Journalism

Midgley, Leslie

Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary

The diary, smuggled out of Nazi Germany, of a Jewish woman who wrote the social column for a major Berlin newspaper, and was able to observe the rise of the Nazis

Fromm, Bella

The author celebrates the history of baseball, focusing on the dramatic changes that he witnessed and participated in as the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association union

A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball

Sports & Outdoors

Marvin Miller

Baseball

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The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir

Seaman, Frederic

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Barks, Roars and Siren Songs: How Animals Talk to Us and How We Talk Back

Science & Math

BRIGHT,MICHAEL

Nature & Ecology

Argues that often adultery is an inherited pattern of behavior, describes how adultery affects a relationship, and offers advice on forgiveness and rebuilding a marital relationship

Adultery: The Forgivable Sin : Healing the Inherited Patterns of Betrayal in Your Family

Self-Help

Bonnie Eaker. Weil

RUTH WINTER

Relationships

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Papa Andrea's Sicilian Table: Recipes from a Sicilian Chef As Remembered by His Grandson

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Schiavelli, Vincent

Cooking Education & Reference

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