Todd James Pierce · 2016
A corporate history detailing the political and institutional challenges behind the creation of Disneyland.
Cal Newport recommends it because academic press books spend years in archives to deliver much better research than popular histories.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“The other book I finished was, speaking of Disney, Three Years in Wonderland by Tom James Pierce. The story of Disneyland is another one of these academic press books.”
Why: He recommends it because academic press books take years in the archives to deliver much better research and detail than popular histories.
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