Nevertheless: A Memoir

2017 | Biography

Drawing on his characteristic charisma, intelligence, and honesty, Alec Baldwin—one of the most accomplished and controversial stars today—holds nothing back in a beautifully written, unfiltered memoir that is at once heartrending, funny, and genuine.
Over the past three decades Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood’s most talented, hilarious, and controversial leading men. Millions know Alec for his onscreen roles in 80s classics Beetlejuice and Working Girl and dramatic thrillers like The Cooler, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, and more recently for his beloved seven-year stint as Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock, for which he won two Emmys, three Golden Globes, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Others may think they know him based on paparazzi-fueled scandals: Alec’s public marriage to Kim Bassinger in 1993 and his even more public divorce nine years later, which featured a prolonged custody battle over their daughter, Ireland. His 1995 assault of a photographer for videotaping his family. His online rants on everything from the state of American politics to the difficulties of living in New York City ensure his opinions, great and small, on the state of the world are heard.

What few have seen is the man behind the public persona of Alec Baldwin: the boy who felt alienated by his family’s financial strains and his parents’ unhappy marriage; the self-identified Love Taxi who helped friends resolve their romantic lives to the neglect of his own; the man who hit intense lows with drugs and alcohol as he struggled with sobriety; and the husband and father who realizes his short fallings and has struggled to rectify them. But one thing throughout his many personas remains constant. Alec Baldwin isn’t afraid to go there and in Nevertheless he delivers this with his signature outspoken abandon, astute observational savvy, and charismatic wit.

Alec Baldwin (Author)