Status Updates From The Animated Man: A Life of...

I’ve clearly reached the point where the author turns. For some reason he has switched to a CinemaSins style takedown of Mary Poppins and now a deconstruction of Disney’s public image in a jarring tonal shift.

The author’s thesis is that this book isn’t like the other Disney bios that are either too positive or too critical. This one will be down-the-middle and will correct common mistakes of the others. Through Chapter 1, this correction largely plays out as pointing out rather minor errors in other works in an “Ummmm, ACTUALLY” kind of way and otherwise getting some small jabs at Walt in.