For the first time Charlie Sheen the star of Platoon Wall Street Major League and Two
and a Half Men writes the story of his extraordinary life in an unfiltered memoir. “We can
live the stories or hear about them later from others. I choose the former.” Charlie Sheen
should not be alive to write this book. But in The Book of Sheen the movie and TV star who
has defied the odds finally presents his story in his own words. Charlie Sheen was born the
third of four children to actor Martin Sheen and his wife Janet. He grew up on film sets—from
his father’s all over the world to his own in Malibu. There he made ambitious Super 8s with a
roster of friends who went on to become household names themselves including his brother
Emilio Sean and Chris Penn and the Lowe brothers. Sheen broke into movies in the 1980s
playing a hoodlum in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a young soldier in Platoon and an ethically
compromised trader in Wall Street . But somewhere along the way despite a successful
transition to TV leading man in Spin City and Two and a Half Men Sheen descended into a
vortex of extracurricular activities. Now sober Sheen delivers a clear-eyed narrative of his
highs and lows with humor candor and a vivid captivating writing style that is uniquely his.
The Book of Sheen reads like a far-fetched overstuffed novel of Hollywood life—yet it is all
true.
