Walt Disney may just be the most successful example of the "American Dream" to the public. Making it past the white picket fence, house, and car, Walt Disney headed one of the most successful American companies of all time. He came from a modest background and essentially made it to the top, encapsulating the "work hard" ideology of many immigrants at the time, "
Beginning in the late 1920s, his immense end multifaceted entertainment
enterprise - short cartoons, feature-length animations, live-action films, comic books, and records, nature documentaries, colossal theme parks- inundated the United States, much of the Western world, and beyond." (84) Disney honestly started at the bottom a starving artist and made it to the top a multi-billionaire, succeeding the American dream.
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Source: The Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Jun., 1995), pp. 84-110
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