#39 Walt Disney: An American Original

In nineteen sixty five, a publisher suggested that I write a biography of Walt Disney. Knowing that Walt was heavily involved with a full production schedule, His television show A proposed theme park in Florida. New attractions for Disneyland, and a host of other projects.

I expected to write the book from file material. But Walt insisted on giving me four lengthy interviews. He dwelled on his early years. On the farm in Marceline? As a newspaper delivery boy in Kansas City.

And as a student and mailman in Chicago. He seemed eager To sum up the lessons he had learned as a boy. And tell young people how he applied them in his later life.

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