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Joe McGinniss Jr.'s new memoir, Damaged People , explores his often difficult relationship with his father, Fatal Vision author Joe McGinniss

The book spans his childhood to the present-day, including his life with his own teenage son

Damaged People is on sale now

When Joe McGinniss Jr. set out to write about his late father, journalist and author Joe McGinniss, his editor had a request: “Go for it and don’t hold back.”

It’s safe to say he didn’t. McGinniss Jr.’s memoir Damaged People (out now) explores his relationship with his loving, but hard-drinking and often-absent father — the writer of acclaimed books like The Selling of the President and Fatal Vision — as well as McGinniss Jr.’s own mental health and his relationship with his now-teenage son.

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