DisneyWar

DisneyWar is an exposé of Michael Eisner's 20-year tenure at the 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 and Robert Iger. 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.

Stewart's book describes some of the following:

• Roy E. Disney's abrupt resignation (November 2003)
• The Comcast hostile takeover attempt
• The 2004 Shareholders' meeting that led to Eisner's resignation as Chairman
• Eisner's friendship-turned-rivalry with Jeffrey Katzenberg
• Eisner's tension with Frank Wells before Wells's death
• Eisner's tension with Michael Ovitz during Ovitz's short-lived presidency
• Pixar's decision not to renew its relationship with Disney
• The purchase of the ABC Family channel and its content and the fallout resulting from Disney's inability to revive it.
• The struggle to get Who Framed Roger Rabbit made in time and on budget despite the big egos of Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams.
• Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold's removal of Disney CEO Ron W. Miller in 1984.
• Hilary Duff's decision to quit the Disney Channel because of low salary.

Official information

• Stewart, James (2005). DisneyWar. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80993-1.