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

America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed…

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1 author picked Oscar Wars as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I am an Academy Awards nerd. I don’t think that description does it justice though. A worshipper? An obsessed fanatic? It’s impossible to over emphasize.

So, when I saw there was a new book about Oscar History, I was drawn to it like a moth to the flame. I went in confident and snarky like I already knew everything that the book contained, but I was pleasantly surprised. The book is not a conventional retelling of the entire Award show history.

It picks certain points in history that were important, dives deep, and illustrates change and turmoil through those details.…

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The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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