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A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce | 
| Author: Alec Baldwin
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0312363362
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028092
EAN: 9780312363369
ASIN: 0312363362
Publication Date: October 22, 2008
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Poor Alec Baldwin Still Doesn't Get It September 23, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I watched a few excerpts from Alec Baldwin's interview on 20/20 in relation to his book, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce. Men don't get a fair shake in divorce courts or from society-at-large. According to the promo:
"I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation," Alec Baldwin declares in A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured.
I read some of the articles related to the interview and wondered if his personal journey, estimated at around $3 million in court costs plus jetting around regularly to remain in contact with his daughter, could offer much advice that most men could relate to. I suppose most men will easily avoid a similar experience simply because they can't afford it. In fact, divorce and its aftermath leave many men unable to afford a soft-copy version of such a book - let alone the hard-copy version on sale now.
Baldwin's inability to connect with the common man, or even his own situation for that matter, runs deeper than the amount of green at his disposal. A constant supporter of the Democratic Party, he paints Bill Clinton as a hero, regularly proclaims that Al Gore won the presidency, declared he'd leave the country if George Bush became president in 2000 (and then didn't leave), and is currently pushing the idea that Sarah Palin is a George Bush look-a-like; hoping to keep in touch with the extreme anti-Bush contingency.
For those who think Alec Baldwin is a superficial twit, he doesn't disappoint. After eight years of comment on the 2000 presidential election, he still hasn't figured out how the election process works, or doesn't understand the electoral college system, or isn't aware that every recount in Florida showed Bush won, or all of the above. So it doesn't seem out of character to see him continuing to support a political party that has expressed its hatred of men - divorced and never married fathers in particular - in its platform for almost two decades. How will helping this party maintain power "help others avoid the anguish he has endured?"
The answer is that it won't and most likely Alec Baldwin doesn't care that it won't. Face to face with the effects of politically expressed hatred and corruption he continues to embrace his tormentors. Rather than looking the evil in the eye and providing support in the battle against it, he wrote a book about himself.
Is his self-portrayal even real? Somehow I doubt it. He prayed, he says, that he wouldn't wake up in the morning and considered specific ideas about how to carry out his suicide. When it really comes down to a matter of life or death, people take care of the business that needs to be taken care of. Alec Baldwin is still working his manufactured image in direct contradiction to the need. He just can't get real.
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