Keys to the Kingdom
Subtitle: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else
Publisher: Collins; HarperBusiness
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780066621098
First sentence: IT MUST HAVE been difficult, even frightening, for a poor little rich boy whose parents wanted so much for him and demanded so much from him.
Description: "Like one of the movie moguls of old, Michael Eisner is a titan - feared, powerful, and almost magically successful. After rising through ABC television and Paramount Pictures, he awoke the sleeping giant of Disney and sent it stomping across the entertainment landscape. But since the tragic death of Frank Wells in a helicopter crash in 1994, he has lacked - for the first time in his career - a colleague who could temper his personality." "The result, writes Kim Masters, has been a slide into a Nixonian paranoia and isolation. In The Keys to the Kingdom, Masters crafts a gripping account of this larger-than-life story of larger-than-life hubris, combining an insightful analysis of power in Hollywood with a vivid, deeply researched narrative that brings the personalities, the enmities, and the corporate mayhem to life."--BOOK JACKET.