The Disney Version Author:Richard Schickel One of the decade's most important studies of American popular culture, Richard Schickel's critical biography has been met with a flood of praise. Schickel damns the undamnable, calling into question more than the artisitic values of a single powerful man-he questions America's most foolish dreams of itself. Newsweek said, "Sparks fly with the a... more »uthor's keen intelligence cuts through layers of mythic nonsense and buncombe to arrive at some valuable truths about the most successful manufacturer, packager, and purveyor of myths who ever lived...a consistently provocative book." Norman Podhoretz wrote, "A fascinating book, one of the most engrossing I've read in ages, and in it's own way, one of the most illuminating about this country." And Harper's Magazine said, "A thoroughly satisfying and most informative discussion of all aspects of the Disney legend made particularly rewarding through the author's own astringent and pithy comment on the cultural and aesthetic scene."« less