“Superb—provocative and unnerving. . . . a tour de force. [Snow] has impressively smooth control of his depraved, devastating material.”
This joyful, lavishly detailed account will entertain Disneyphiles and readers of popular American history.
Recipient of the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for distinguished naval literature.
Richard Snow spent nearly four decades at American Heritage magazine, serving as editor in chief for seventeen years, and has been a consultant on historical motion pictures, among them Glory, and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers’ Civil War, and Ric Burns’s award-winning PBS film Coney Island, whose screenplay he wrote. He is the author of multiple books, including, most recently, Disney’s Land.