How to Be a Man: (and other illusions)

One wouldn't usually turn to a veteran of Guns N' Roses for advice on how to live, but Duff McKagan is not a typical rock musician. He got sober at thirty, went back to school, got smart about money, fell in love, became a father, and got his life back on track. Through trial and considerable error, Duff learned to strike the balance between family and work, travel and contentment, financial aptitude and sacrifice.

In How to Be a Man, Duff takes the reader into the life of an international rock musician and shares, with disarming candor and humor, the solid life lessons he's learned along the way to success and fulfillment in both his family life and career. From hard-won advice on basics like starting with a strong base and staying humble to techniques on staving depression and transforming darker impulses into something productive, How to Be a Man is the ultimate guide to rocking life—not as a dissolute train-wreck "rock star" but as a man bound for success and longevity.

• It's So Easy: and other lies
• Slash
• My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N' Roses
• Sweet Child of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N' Roses
• Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction
• W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose
• Dirty Rocker Boys
• The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
• The Dirt Soundtrack
• Guns N' Roses: The Life and Times of a Rock ’n’ Roll Band