When powerful institutions change hands, the official story rarely captures the full weight of what transpired in private. Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek has broken from the customary silence of the displaced executive, publishing a memoir that reframes his 2022 departure not as a graceful exit but as a removal engineered by his predecessor, Bob Iger. The account invites the public into a corridor of corporate power that companies like Disney typically keep sealed — where succession planning and palace intrigue are often indistinguishable from one another.