You Never Know

The long-awaited memoir from the beloved film and television star–known to multiple generations for his starring roles on the long-running shows Magnum,P.I. and Blue Bloods–chronicles both his life in show business and his life away from it. Nearly every American knows Tom Selleckboth by name and by face. For four decades and countingSelleck has been a television and film iconfirst as MagnumP.I.one of the most popular and enduring shows of the eightiesand currently in Blue Bloodswhere he plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan. But Selleck’s career is longerand richerthan those two hits suggest. He began in the trenches as a working actor in the late sixties and struggled for more than a decade before breaking out with Magnum. At the height of his stardomhe opted not for cookie-cutter blockbusters but for more interesting character-based projects: comedies like Three Men and a Baby and In & Outa record-setting trilogy of TV-movie Westernsand the acclaimed Jesse Stone TV-movie franchise. And that doesn’t even count his key supporting role on the generation-defining sitcom Friends or his appearance on Broadway in A Thousand Clowns. All along the waySelleck has been careful to balance his stardom with a devotion to family life and privacy. His memoir offers a rare and rewarding look inside that career and that life. Beginning with Selleck’s Southern California childhoodfollowing him through an America roiled by Vietnam and the counterculturethis memoir chronicles Selleck’s development not just as an actor (and as an actor who worked with such legends as Mae WestFrank Sinatraand Marlon Brando)but as a man. Rich with charminsightand a surprising dose of self-deprecating humorthis memoir illuminates five decades of Hollywood–and of America. A vivid and incisive portrait that combines heart and headwork and homehard-fought wisdom and renewable optimismSelleck’s memoir is an up-close and inspiring look at America’s favorite actor.