615. Disneyland: The Modern American Utopia

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Referred to multiple times as 'the great biography by Neil Gabler' and 'Gabler's biography' - cited for insights on Disney losing interest in animated films in the 1940s-50s, his craving for total control, the opening day TV audience estimate of 70 million, and the design symbolism of Main Street USA.

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Mentioned as 'a whole book called Suburban Warriors by a historian called Lisa McGurr, all about Orange County, as the sort of Petri dish in which modern American conservatism was made.'

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Mentioned as a book published in 1990 by Michael Crichton on the theme of what happens when a theme park goes wrong, later made into a film by Steven Spielberg.