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| Title | : | DisneyWar |
| Author | : | James B. Stewart |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 592 pages |
| Published | : | February 11th 2005 by Simon & Schuster (first published January 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Business. History. Biography |
James B. Stewart
Hardcover | Pages: 592 pages Rating: 4.02 | 5112 Users | 360 Reviews
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The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.“When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, theme parks, and living rooms around the world—everywhere Disney does business and its products are cherished.
Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as thousands of pages of never-before-seen letters, memos, transcripts, and other documents, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years: What really caused the rupture with studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a man who once regarded Eisner as a father but who became his fiercest rival? How could Eisner have so misjudged Michael Ovitz, a man who was not only “the most powerful man in Hollywood” but also his friend, whom he appointed as Disney president and immediately wanted to fire? What caused the break between Eisner and Pixar chairman Steve Jobs, and why did Pixar abruptly abandon its partnership with Disney? Why did Eisner so mistrust Roy Disney that he assigned Disney company executives to spy on him? How did Eisner control the Disney board for so long, and what really happened in the fateful board meeting in September 2004, when Eisner played his last cards?
DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America’s most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. It tells a story that—in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax—might itself have been the subject of a Disney classic—except that it’s all true.
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| Original Title: | DisneyWar |
| ISBN: | 0684809931 (ISBN13: 9780684809939) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2005) |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 5112 Users | 360 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books DisneyWar
I was really into this at Camp Mather. For some reason I find books like this to be excellent "beach reading" (last year it was the book about Marisa Meyer's time at yahoo!) But this one is really good. Just so much opulence, bizarre psycho drama, letter writing and political backstabbing...In theory this book is quite boring but like "Barbarians at the Gate" it's a gripping yarn... or at least tricks you into thinking it is for the first several hundred pagesWhen I worked at Disney, people who had worked for the company for more than 15-20 years all had a fun choice of words when they talked about Michael Eisner. This book is the most thorough account I've seen of the years of Disney under the management of Eisner. It's like reading a Disney version of House of Cards
This is the most jaw-dropping business book I've read. The author is invited inside the Disney organization to find out what makes it tick...and discovers it's a time bomb. The opening is the Disney version we've always imagined, with the author experiencing a magical moment while working as a beloved Disney character at one of the Parks. He is then invited to record the inner workings of the Michael Eisner regime...almost at the exact moment when things start to go horribly wrong. What was
I'm sure it comes as no surprise that even a quote family-friendly unquote company like Disney has a sordid underbelly. What mega-corporation these days doesn't (just a tip, if you enjoy Diet Coke, I wouldn't google their international business practices too hard; it's not pretty).Disneywar isn't quite that kind of book -- we're not traveling into the sweatshops where orphans with bleeding fingers sew buttons on Mickey's overalls -- but it does air a lot of dirty laundry about the 20-year period
Stewart takes a fascinating in-depth look at the structure and politics of the Walt Disney Company, focusing on the years Michael Eisner was in power. Reporting in a straight "these-are-the-facts" manner, you still get a breathtakingly dramatic portrait of Eisner: His creative, younger years of success, partnered with talented people, and his gradual loss of his sense of reality as he begins to see himself as the omnipotent king of the Disney empire, and the natural heir of Walt Disney himself.
A tale of the obnoxious dregs of upper management at Disney from the 1980s on, their annual bonuses and spats. This is before the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but he makes an appearance as a respected peer which tells you a lot about the kind of people they are. They are also given surprising creative credit, Jeffrey Katzenberg is said to have come up with the idea for Lion King for example, which does not gel with other accounts, to put it politely. Though it does have an account of him butchering
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