I'll Be Damned

For nearly four decades, fans have welcomed the star of television's number one daytime show, The Young and the Restless, into their living rooms. While they've come to know and love the suave Victor Newman, few truly know the man behind the character, the supremely talented Eric Braeden. Now, in his first book, Eric shares the story of his life-a startling and uplifting tale of war, deprivation, determination, fame, and social commitment that spans from Nazi Germany to modern...
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For nearly four decades, fans have welcomed the star of television's number one daytime show, The Young and the Restless, into their living rooms. While they've come to know and love the suave Victor Newman, few truly know the man behind the character, the supremely talented Eric Braeden. Now, in his first book, Eric shares the story of his life-a startling and uplifting tale of war, deprivation, determination, fame, and social commitment that spans from Nazi Germany to modern Hollywood.

Braeden's journey from a hospital basement in Kiel to the sound stages of Los Angeles has taught him more about joy, heartbreak, fear, dignity, loss, love, loneliness, exhilaration, courage, persecution, and profound responsibility to the global community than he could have hoped to learn in several lifetimes. Growing up in the years after Germany's defeat, Braeden knew very little about the atrocities of his parents' generation until he arrived in America as a teenager-a discovery that horrified and transformed him. Trying to redress the wrongs of his homeland, he has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes-even forming the German American Culture Society-working for decades to show the world that what we share as humans is far more important than what separates us from one another.

Told with openness, humor, heart, and raw vulnerability, I'll Be Damned reveals a man committed to making the world a better, more loving place. Filled with sixteen pages of photographs from Braeden's decorated life and career, I'll Be Damned is a cherished keepsake for his fans and an inspiring testament to the goodness within us all.