a book
The Ragman’s Son
Kirk Douglas · 1988 · 639 pages
Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragpicker and junkman, Kirk Douglas makes clear in this powerful, angry, and passionate book the ways in which his difficult childhood dominated his life as an actor, father, and man.
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Darren Aronofsky
“It’s basically Kirk Douglas’s story of coming from nothing—he was a ragman’s son—and achieving the American dream through the Hollywood movie system… He is someone who made great movies, didn’t forget where he came from, was proud of where he came from, and represented where he came from his entire life.”↗