This just in from Jim Hill about the Richard Hack book about Eisner I was wondering about yesterday:

[Just so you know, this Richard Hack book that you wrote today about seems to have a couple of different titles. More importantly, a couple of different publication dates. Take -- for example -- the version that I just found (and ordered) over at eCampus.com. It goes by this name:

Michael Eisner's Tragic Kingdom: The Man Behind the Mouse
edition: Author(s): Hack, Richard
ISBN: 1893224961 / Hardcover / Jul 01, 2004

Price of single item: $20.68 Could the "Rise and Fall of Michael Eisner" been a proposed-never-published redo of "Tragic Kingdom" that was looking to capitalize on Michael's early exit from the Walt Disney Company and Iger's rise? I mean, it doesn't seem all that likely that this guy would write two books about Uncle Michael within the span of 26 months ... Does it?]

Michael Eisner seems to have stopped the distribution of the book Jim Hill mention above after a lawsuit in 2005.

I picked up yesterday in Paris two books by Sébastien Roffat who is clearly on his way to becoming one of the leading historians of animation outside of the US with his book Animation et Propagande and his upcoming book about French animation during WWII. I have just browsed through his book about the history of Disneyland Paris and it looks as if Roffat really did his homework!

All this being said, when I read the bibliography of the Disney et la France book, I stumbled on a book called The Rise and Fall of Michael Eisner by Richard Hack. Would anyone of you know if that book has been released or when it will be released?