The Perfect American

by Peter Stephan Jungk

Book Overview

The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590511158
• ISBN13: 9781590511152
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful and inventive look at an imperfect American icon

The Perfect American is a well-researched, thoughtful, and inventive look at an imperfect American icon. It delves into the psychological construction of megalomania, as it follows Disney through his last few months, but it also takes a not-uncritical look at the narrator himself, and his own motivations and fascination with Disney's charisma and questionable politics. In my view, this book is much more balanced and subtly incisive than an earlier reviewer suggested, and the imagination of the author is to be admired. I for one certainly don't admire Disney's politics, as much as one might(?) respect the far-reaching impact his company has had on American culture. This book raises some interesting questions for any open-minded reader to take with them, and it is simply a good read as well.