{"product_id":"b0gg9psksl","title":"One Helluva Ride","description":"\u003cp\u003eAN INSTANT #1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA boy lost in the shadow of his father's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA gifted artist dismissed as just a “TV actor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA first-time film producer who stunned the world by winning an Oscar at 31.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA maverick who changed Hollywood and became a global movie star.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I spent a significant portion of my career playing some version of the modern, flawed, American male. You’ll see from these pages that it wasn’t exactly a stretch for me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with his fractured childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar father, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life.  One Helluva Ride  reveals incredible behind-the-scenes stories featuring a Who’s Who of Hollywood, many of them never revealed before and some outrageously funny, with an unflinching honesty about his sometimes bad-boy life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInitially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star, at age thirty-one he shook up Hollywood when he won his first Oscar for producing the five-time Academy Award-winning classic film  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . Told he would never be more than a “TV actor,” he quit the hit series  The Streets of San Francisco  to become an international movie star, with a list of classic films that have grossed billions of dollars, winning a second Oscar for his riveting performance as Gordon Gekko in  Wall Street .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I can’t think about my life without thinking of my movies,” Douglas says, and he recounts his career through twelve of his most iconic films, including  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ,  The China Syndrome ,  Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile ,  Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President, Traffic  and  Behind the Candelabra .  These movies not only captured the cultural zeitgeist but often defined it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet as Douglas's fame grew, so did his personal struggles. He recounts the full, unfiltered story of his turbulent first mar­riage; infidelity and affairs with some of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood; his own serious struggle with alcohol, drugs and rehab; the heartbreaking fight to save his son from an addiction that sent him to prison; and his against-all-odds battle with stage IV cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe saw Catherine Zeta Jones on a movie screen and instantly fell for her. Their incredible love story transformed his life and proved all the tabloids wrong, enduring after twenty-five years of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFather, son, husband, actor, producer, brother and friend. This is the real, raw, deeply honest and vulnerable Michael Douglas you didn't know—until now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67880719548661,"sku":"YSL90230","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/81f5jI4ER4L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793277145","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0gg9psksl","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}