suggestions for Disney books?

[ldhr2005]

I am heading to Jamaica in a few weeks and decided that among the books that I am bringing with me that there needs to be some Disney in there!!! I am not looking for planning type books (I am the one people come to when they need their trips planned:rolleyes1) Rather, I am looking for some of the "behind the magic" type of reading. Any suggestions??? ok, ok...I am bringing the 2010 Unofficial Guide just for fun too :rotfl2:

[W.E.D.]

If you'd like to know more about the man, I've read

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
and
Walt Disney: An American Original


Both great books, IMHO.

[Ktharee]

The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney world looks like a good one. Gonna pick it up for myself today actually.

[Piglet]

I just read Mousejunkies. It was really funny, I could see myself in the entire book and had to chuckle. Alot of the info I already knew, but just the way it is presented and the stories of how he became a mousejunkie it very funny. I finished it in 3 days.

Another one my DD likes is The Lost Journals. It has a lot of interesting facts and background stories on attractions.

Melinda

[danceintherain]

For a class I took about a year ago, the teacher told us to pick a bureaucracy, and write a paper on it. Being the Disney obsessed person that I am, I took that paper as an opportunity to research the bureaucracy of Disney.

I didn't complete many of the books I got (I was a college student, so my reading time was usually already called for) but my favorites were:

Thomas, Bob. Building a Company: Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire. Hyperion: New York. 1998.

I found the relationship between Roy & Walt to be very interesting.

Schickel, Richard. The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art, and Commerce of Disney. Elephant Paperbacks: Chicago, 1997.

[Brian_WDW74]

I've moved this thread to the Theme Parks Community board. :)