A Serious Look Into One of America's Biggest Fantasies

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"Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination," by Neal Gabler. Knopf, $35, 820 pages.

In a year already rich in biographies, including excellent new books on William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long and both Caesar and Augustus, critic Neal Gabler's "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" is a standout. At 633 pages of text and another 200 pages of notes, bibliography and acknowledgments, it's a stupendous accomplishment, written for the general reader, and worth every page.

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A Serious Look Into One of America's Biggest Fantasies

With so much written about Walt Disney (1901-66), it's difficult to say that any one book, no matter how long or how well research...

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