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Richard Snow, author of Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever.” On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates…and the first day was a disaster. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. In DISNEY’S LAND, Richard Snow presents the entire spectacular story, an epic of innovation and error that reflects the uniqueness of the man determined to build “the happiest place on earth” with a watchmaker’s precision, an artist’s conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler.

Week of November 30, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of November 30th include INTO THE FIRE, the fifth installment in Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series featuring Evan Smoak, who this time is facing his deadliest job yet; IN THE DREAM HOUSE, Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse; LONG BRIGHT RIVER by Liz Moore, a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction and the formidable ties that persist between place, family and fate; DISNEY'S LAND, a propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow; and AFRICAVILLE, Jeffrey Colvin's stunning debut novel that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time and fate.