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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
Stewart has an astonishing story to tell. His notable accomplishment is that he tells it so well. [14 Feb 2005, p.61]
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Outstanding
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Washington Post Bob Woodward
DisneyWar is a compelling and often brilliant tale... a monumental achievement of in-depth reporting.
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Favorable
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Wall Street Journal Andy Kessler
Can be tedious at times, although worth the effort, for the details show something startling about Mr. Eisner's executive style.
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Favorable
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The Economist
Mr Stewart's history is farce as well as morality tale.
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Favorable
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Boston Globe Peter J. Howe
A rigorously reported account that pulls no punches.
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Favorable
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Houston Chronicle Alcestis Oberg
Exhaustively researched and well-written, it's a complicated tale told by someone with a thorough understanding of both business and writing.
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Favorable
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The New York Times Book Review John Leonard
Those of us with a taste for abuse can revel in what James Stewart expertly culls from a multitude of interviews, the verbatim notes the journalist Tony Schwartz took for Eisner's autobiography, transcripts of court hearings and correspondence with lawyers.
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Favorable
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The Onion A.V. Club Nathan Rabin
Disney War is a show-business story heavy on business and light on show. Stewart adopts a lean, economical, just-the-facts, hard-news approach that perfectly suits the material's innate drama.
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Joe Flower
Stewart's excellent and exacting account seethes with intimate corporate detail. [26 Mar 2005, p.D12]
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Favorable
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The Guardian Jay Parini
Stewart tells this story with an almost indecent gusto, and the result is a thoroughly readable and entertaining book.
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Mixed
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Daily Telegraph Tom Shone
Eisner is, however, too diffuse to hold it all together. What was Disney's problem is now Stewart's: he needed a fabulous monster at dead-centre if his book was to sustain its 500-plus pages, hurling desks and journalists as it goes. Instead of which, he gets a sniper.
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Mixed
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Entertainment Weekly Steve Daly
Tenacious reporting can't overcome a fatal narrative problem: Eisner, while wounded, is still standing.... That ultimately makes DisneyWar a dead-end read.
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Mixed
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Los Angeles Times Richard Schickel
On the one hand, this portrait of the executive suite as rat's nest has an undeniably hypnotizing effect; you eagerly turn the pages -- almost every one of which contains a new betrayal, a new example of human wretchedness. On the other hand, at a certain point in the book, men behaving badly become men behaving predictably, therefore tediously. [11 Feb 2005, p.E1]
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Mixed
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
Mr. Stewart recapitulates all this with more studiousness than flair, to the point where the book comes to resemble one of the PowerPoint boardroom presentations that it describes.
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Mixed
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Chicago Tribune David Greising
Stewart, an accomplished piano player, seems to have forgotten in his writing the technique that turns piano playing into art: dynamics. Too often, he unfolds events for us with the steadiness of a metronome.
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