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DisneyWar
Front Cover
AuthorJames B. Stewart
IllustratorAlexandra Truitt
Cover artistDana Sloan
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBusiness
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
February 9, 2005
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages572 pp.
ISBN0-684-80993-1
OCLC57654006
384.809
LC ClassPN1999.W27 S74 2005

DisneyWar is a book that serves as an exposé of Michael Eisner's 20-year tenure as chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company by James B. Stewart. The book chronicles the careers and interactions of executives at Disney, including Card Walker, Ron W. Miller, Roy E. Disney, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Ovitz, Joe Roth, Bob Iger and Stan Kinsey. The book was released in 2005 and was published by Simon & Schuster. Its uniqueness was attributed to the large amount of access allowed to Stewart in putting the book together.[1]

Publishers originally planned on releasing the book on March 7, 2005,[2] only to accelerate the launch date to February 9, 2005 after vendor demand, and Disney executives had acknowledged recently acquiring a leaked edition of the manuscript.[3] By coincidence, the revised publication coincided with Disney's annual shareholders meeting, which kicked-off the following morning at the Minneapolis Convention Center.[4]

In his 2006 Afterword, author James B. Stewart acknowledged the last conversation he had with his subject (just before the book's initial launch, over the phone):

'Eisner vowed that he’d never speak to me again.' [3]

Content

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Stewart's book describes some of the following:

Michael Eisner was still CEO of Disney when DisneyWar went to press; He finally agreed to step down in March 2005, eventually abdicating executive oversight to Bob Iger, less than a month after DisneyWar debuted.

Reviews

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A USA Today article by journalist David Lieberman stated that the story "may not sound like a page turner, but DisneyWar is." He referred to Stewart as an "accomplished storyteller who had the luck or foresight to stake out a company filled with colorful executives in a glamorous business—at the moment investors decided they had had enough".[6]

Editions

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References

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  1. ^ "DISNEYWAR by James B. Stewart". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  2. ^ Arango, Tim (January 28, 2005). "MOUSE TROUBLE – 'DISNEY WAR' SPARKS EXEC'S RESIGNATION OFFER". New York Post. Archived from the original on June 29, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Stewart, James B. (March 7, 2006). DisneyWar (First Paperback ed.). New York City, New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 535–536. ISBN 9780743267090.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. ^ McClintock, Pamela (February 10, 2005). "'DisneyWar' rushed to stores". Variety. Archived from the original on June 29, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
  5. ^ "DisneyWar Summary". SuperSummary. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  6. ^ Lieberman, David (March 9, 2005). "Eisner at center of 'DisneyWar'". USA Today. Gannett Company.