Mickey Mouse on his Birthday
Disney’s politics in the era of the New Deal and FDR (from the NYTimes Book Review)
5 min readNov 17, 2019
Mickey Mouse was introduced to the world on November 18, 1928, in “Steamboat Willie,” the first cartoon talkie. In 1978 the David McKay Company, noting that it was “Mickey’s first hardcover publisher,” reproduced from the color originals the first three books in which the…
