One Helluva Ride: the Explosive Memoir From the academy award-Winning actor and Hollywood Legend

In this candid memoir, Michael Douglas looks back on his eight-decade life and five-decade career in Hollywood. He discusses growing up as the son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, his complicated relationship with his father, and his determination to build a career on his own terms.

The book follows his journey from being dismissed as merely a television actor and "Kirk Douglas's son" to becoming an Oscar-winning producer and one of Hollywood's most recognizable actors. It covers films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Traffic, and Behind the Candelabra.

Douglas also writes openly about the personal difficulties behind his public success, including addiction, the breakdown of his first marriage, his son's drug addiction and imprisonment, his battle with stage-four cancer, and his long relationship and marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones.