Walt Disney The Triumph Of The American Imagination Summary

A good entrepreneur is needed to be endowed that the abilities of innovative change in terms of particular productions and leading the company both internal and external factors effectively with the employees. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler seeks a theme that attempts to describe Walt Disney’s life. The author is able to capture one of Disney’s drives as being to control reality through creation of fantasy world. He describes the drive as a childhood psychological need that arose from fraught paternal relationship and childhood hardship in a small town where Disney was born (Gabler, 2006). Additionally, Disney was enthusiastic with technology as a passion bordering on boredom since it is technology that infused his life.

Walt Disney entry into the world of technology was because it interested him most making him to become a geek in every technology he touched. His venture in technology even changed the future of US technology emanating from his animated films (Kaplan, 2011). He was able to change a popular culture that is embodied the American dream, by revolutionising the entertainment industry through creating cartoon that combined sound and picture to promote a theme park that became a national

This is where he set the pattern of how his life would become through his efforts to devise an invented universe that he could control since he was not able to control reality (Molella, 2008). The development of his cartoon films from Mickey Mouse all through Disneyland and Epcot was his attempt to rebuild the world in his own imaginations that could certify his place as a force in that world and keep reality from engulfing it (Kakutani, 2006). This way he will be able to recapture the childhood power that he has never