From a Wall Street Journal story by Marc Weingarten of the book by Michael Schulman titled “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears”:

Instead of opting for a year-by-year survey of the industry and the awards, Mr.Schulman, a staff writer at the New Yorker, deep-dives into key moments that take the reader from the earliest days of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the present day. More crucially, Mr. Schulman’s book chronicles how the Academy stumbled through the 20th century’s rapid cultural changes with little grace or fellow feeling.