Overview
- Publishers and online listings announced on Wednesday that Robbie Whelan’s unauthorized biography, The House of Mouse, is slated for publication on December 1, 2026 and is now available for preorder.
- HarperCollins and book descriptions say the work draws on hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of internal documents and memos to chronicle Iger’s tenure and the decade-long succession struggle.
- Disney retained attorney Charles Harder in April 2026 and has sent letters to HarperCollins seeking details and fact-checking time, formally pushing back on the book’s claims and the reporter’s past coverage.
- Bob Chapek’s memoir, Behind the Castle Walls, is scheduled to appear before Whelan’s book, creating two near-term, competing first-person accounts of recent leadership decisions at Disney.
- The book’s focus on Iger’s mergers and conflicts with figures like Ike Perlmutter and investor Nelson Peltz could renew public and shareholder attention on Disney’s governance, executive succession and reputational risks.