The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town - Softcover

Ross, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345417526 ISBN 13: 9780345417527

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 2000

Synopsis

The most honest and insightful study yet written about Disney's much-publicized new town raises important questions about the planned community. Reprint.

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Review:

".... Entertaining and insightful. Ross is a raconteur with delicious and often telling anecdotes." -- The New York Times "Our first astronaut-in-residence on Planet Disney returns with astonishing tales of its strange life-form and customs. As an explorer of brave new worlds, Ross is a shrewd cross between Jonathan Swift and C. Wright Mills." - Mike Davis "[A] likeable and an entertaining observer of the social ecology." -- The New Yorker "Moving from a cogent analysis of the town to a multifaceted consideration of the environmental implications of American liberty, The Celebration Chronicles is a masterpiece of American Studies scholarship." - Amazon.com "Refreshingly unacademic ... an astute look at a notable, if in some respects surreal, experiment in community building." -- Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Andrew Ross is professor and director of the American studies program at New York University. A writer for Artforum, The Nation, The Village Voice, and many other publications, he is the author or editor of ten previous books, including Real Love, The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life, Strange Weather, and No Respect.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345417526
• ISBN 13: 9780345417527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352