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Walt: Backstage Adventures With Walt Disney

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This book is by Walt Disney's former publicist, Mr. Charles Shows. He may have spent more behind the scenes time with Walt than perhaps anyone else, sitting quitly in the background in meeting after meeting. He comes across very straight forward and honest. Some books about Walt Disney are by people that simply bash him after he is gone in order to push book sales, or suggest weird speculations about him. This book does not do that, nor does it sugarcoat everything either and Walt comes across as a human being like everyone else. Charles Shows just tells it like it is.

I found this to be a very interesting book, both about Disney and the job of being a publicist. I reccommend you track it down. If you are interested in another book by someone who personally spent significant time with Walt at the studio, try the book by Harry Tytle titled "One of Walt's Boys" published in 1997. Tytle was a studio manager/administrator and film producer who spent considerable personal time with Walt. It is a bit hard to track down though.