CONTENTS

Part I: Innovation

1 My Father Was a Socialist

2 Poor and Starving

3 The Value of Loyalty

4 Arthur Babbitt: Hell-Raiser

5 Fighting for His Salary

6 You Can't Draw Your Ass

7 The Disney Art School

8 Three Little Pigs

9 Enter Bioffsky

10 The Cult of Personality

11 A Feature-Length Cartoon

12 Bioff Stakes His Claim

13 A Drunken Mouse

14 Disney's Folly

15 Defense Against the Enemy

Part II: Turmoil

16 A Growing Divide

17 The Norconian

18 A Wooden Boy and a World War

19 Dreams Shattered

20 Hilberman, Sorrell, and Bioff

21 The Federation Versus the Guild

22 The Guild and Babbitt

23 Disney Versus the Labor Board

24 The Final Strike Vote

26 The Big Stick

28 Willie Bioff and Walt Disney

29 The Guild and the CIO

30 Not the Drawing

31 The Final Goodbye

32 And They Lived

Acknowledgments

Appendix The Strikers