Michael Barrier, The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (University of California, $29.95). The last word on the man who made Mickey Mouse talk. No gossip, no nonsense, just an authoritative, lucidly written chronicle of Disney’s life and work by a critic-historian-blogger who knows as much about animated cartoons as anyone alive. Don’t waste time on Neal Gabler’s Disney biography–this is the real right stuff (TT).
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