for The Next Two Decades He Ran With The Best And Brightest, Seeing It All, Doing It All, Seeing It All Done To Everyone. He Married America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds ("the Sex Was Terrible"), And Then Left Her For The World's Most Glamorous Woman, Elizabeth Taylor. Hopelessly In Love, Eddie Watched His Marriage To Elizabeth Fall Apart During The Catastrophic Filming Of Cleopatra, When Elizabeth And Richard Burton Began Their Torrid Affair. There Were Wild Parties With Sinatra And The Rat Pack. Meetings With Sam Giancana. There Was Jfk's Camelot. Las Vegas. And The Women, Always The Most Beautiful Women In The World. Sex. Drugs. Rock 'n' Roll. Eddie Fisher Invented The Idea, And It Almost Killed Him.

with Honesty And Irrepressible Wit, He Recreates An Era And Takes The Reader On A Roller-coaster Ride That Is His Life.

Who would've thought that Eddie Fisher, cheesy pop singer, pipsqueak Mouseketeer to the Rat Pack, speed freak and coke fool, AWOL daddy, discarded Liz Taylor boy toy, and husband from hell could pen a memoir as entertaining as his talented daughter Carrie's? Granted, he has the help of autobiographer to the stars David Fisher (no relation), but still, it's startling how sleekly readable Fisher's misadventures are, and shocking that he comes off with raffish charm and a sense of humor.

Don't worry, there's not too much about Eddie's dull, madly successful singing career--he wasn't that interested in it either. He preferred women. Warning: as is the case with Robert Evans's comparably entertaining sex-and-drugs tell-all, The Kid Stays in the Picture, we can't know whether it's all true. Some of Eddie's alleged women have denied dalliance. Did he really get naked with Joan Collins ("the British Open") in Dean Martin's pool, screaming along with Dino and Brando until the cops came? Did he share Sue Lyon with Richard Burton and Judy Campbell with Sinatra, JFK, and Sam Giancana? (Eddie doubts Campbell's story that she passed documents from JFK to mobster Sam.) Did Jackie turn JFK onto amphetamine fiend Max Jacobson, the famed "Dr. Feelgood" who destroyed his own life and 30 years of Eddie's? Were Bob Hope's military-base shows really "sex tours"? His bitterness makes one doubt he gives first wife Debbie Reynolds ("the Iron Butterfly") a fair shake. Did Liz Taylor drive away, naked and hysterical, in her Cadillac when Eddie suggested she see a psychiatrist? Did Burton beat her, and did she try to steal My Fair Lady from her friend Audrey Hepburn? In a Munich suite once used by Mussolini to entertain Hitler, did Liz bite Eddie as he dug pills out of her mouth to save her life? Did Liz bed Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift? Read Fisher and see what you believe. --Tim Appelo