Mark Greif writes:

Barrier’s less exhaustive biography sees Disney from the point of view of his animators. For an earlier book, Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Barrier conducted extensive interviews, and he relies heavily on them here. Disney’s animators felt the warmest devotion and the deepest hatred for him; some managed to feel both at the same time, and to hold onto both in the haze of memory. Many – even of the best of them – were fired or forced to leave according to Walt’s changing standards, foul moods and caprices.

(LRB 7 June 2007)

California | hardback 393 pp. |ISBN: 9780520241176