Introduction: A Little Too Scared To Hope -- You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, 1927-29: The Academy's turbulent birth -- Rebels, 1933-39: Frank Capra and the attack of the guilds -- War! 1942: The plot against Citizen Kane -- The Greatest Star, 1951: All about an extraordinary Best Actress race -- Who Is Robert Rich? 1947-60: Three screenwriters and the Hollywood blacklist -- X, 1970: The counterculture takes the Oscars -- Running the asylum, 1976: The Oscars fly over the cuckoo's nest -- Fiasco, 1989: Allan Carr and the "Worst Oscars Ever" -- The Harveys, 1999: Shakespeare in Love vs. Saving Private Ryan -- Tokens, 1940, 1964, 2002: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, and Halle Berry make history -- The Envelope, 2017: #OscarsSoWhite and a chaotic night -- Afterword: Gettin' Jiggy Wit It

"The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama." --