This is an auction for DISNEY AT WAR by James B Stewart.

"Compelling and often brilliant."

• Washington Post Book World

"A messy, fractious story complete with its own Seven Dwarfs: Sneaky, Screamy, Pushy, Greedy, Grabby, Nasty and Snarky. Snow White is nowhere to be seen."

• New York Times

"The most explosive chapter of this exceptional book may be its last, wherein Stewart indicts Disney chief Michael Eisner on multiple charges: "Eisner squandered Disney's assets" and "committed personnel and judgment errors which, in the vitriol and publicity they generated, are without parallel in American business history." Eisner, Stewart finds, is a "Shakespearean tragic character" whose fatal flaw is "dishonesty," which in the author's view led directly to the ruptures with Steve Jobs (Pixar) and the Weinstein brothers (Miramax), the Disney Company's most important partners, and to animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg's successful $280 million suit against Disney for moneys owed upon his firing. Stewart's DisneyWorld is a land riven by naked ambition and its necessary consequence, hubris, as during his reign (1984–present) Eisner left behind "a trail of deeply embittered former employees". One of Eisner's many achievements—Stewart tosses his subject petals as well as thorns—was the construction of the Team Disney HQ in Burbank, buttressed by towering models of the Seven Dwarves; but there's no real place for Happy in the Disney world that the author portrays. Stewart understands the medieval nature of corporate life and presents business as a clash not only of ideas but of personalities, and has an astonishing story to tell. His notable accomplishment is that he tells it so well."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

Large forma (trade) paperback 2005.

572 pages + 16 pages of photographs.

Near new condition.

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