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News is one of the few things that connects us as a nation observes the protagonist in the title story of Newsworld, a new collection by Todd James Pierce that explores America s obsession with news and entertainment culture. The characters in Newsworld seek to design realistic theme park attractions, such OJ s Bronco: The Ride and Seige at Waco, that allow park guests to experience the complexities of contemporary news events for themselves. In the story Columbine: The Musical, high school students stage a musical written as a means of discussing school violence, while their vice...

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park--fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told, full story of -the happiest place on earth.- Using information from over one hundred unpublished interviews, Todd James Pierce lays down the arc of Disneyland's development from an idea to a paragon of entertainment.

In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his team to develop a feasibility study for an amusement park...