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High On Arrival Hardcover – September 23, 2009

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The eldest daughter of John Phillips and stepdaughter of Michelle Phillips, both lead singers of the 1960s band The Mamas and The Papas, Mackenzie Phillips grew up in a wild household, where a typical evening might include rolling joints for her dad or fending off advances by Mick Jagger. Far from idyllic, she describes her parents home as dirty and broken with very little going on inside except sex, drugs, and rock and roll..

But in spite of the turmoil at home, Mackenzie found success onscreen, becoming famous at age fourteen for her role in the iconic film American Graffiti, which landed her a starring role as Julie Cooper on the hit sitcom One Day at a Time alongside Americas sweetheart Valerie Bertinelli. Even though she seemed to have it all, Mackenzie couldnt escape the dark secrets and constant drug use at home and began to use herself. Her professional life suffered and she was written out of the show. For the next two decades she battled her drug addiction, going through rehab several times, and managing to stay clean for ten years, until Labor Day 2008, when she landed back in the tabloids for possession of cocaine and heroin at LAX. What led to her relapse is a shocking, life-long secret that shell reveal in-depth for the first time here, in High on Arrival ..

Riveting, heart-wrenching, yet ultimately uplifting, Mackenzies story is an all-too-real testament to the power of drugsbut its also a story of courage, forgiveness, and true redemption. .

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Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips and stepdaughter of Michelle Phillips, both lead singers of the 60s band The Mamas and The Papas. She starred as Julie Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time alongside Valerie Bertinelli.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; First Edition (September 23, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 143915385X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439153857
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips and stepdaughter of Michelle Phillips, both lead singers of the 60s band The Mamas and The Papas. She starred as Julie Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time alongside Valerie Bertinelli.
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Hilary Liftin is a collaborator specializing in celebrity memoir. Since 2006 she has worked on fifteen books, ten of which hit the New York Times bestseller list. Hilary has also written three books under her own name. The first, DEAR EXILE, is letters that she exchanged with her co-author, Kate Montgomery, when Kate was in the Peace Corps in Kenya and Hilary was in New York. It was published by Vintage in 1999 and is still in print. CANDY AND ME: A Love Story is Hilary’s memoir told through different kinds of candy. MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER is her first novel.
Before becoming a full-time writer in 2006, Hilary worked in the publishing industry for ten years, holding positions in editorial, marketing, and business development at Houghton Mifflin, Barnes & Noble.com, and the ebook division of Time Warner Books (now Hachette).
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Rick Artdefoix

One of the most impressive book ever read

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016

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Was and still in shock somehow, after reading it. A strong book in every sense and, for sure, not for weak or too sensitive characters. Think, in exchange, we-her readers- will finish it having learn more and deeper about human kind. Is as good as any of the best novels I read and can assure you have read a lot. Am always reading and chose very much. Happen to know about literature, so let us say that if it is not a book very carefully written, is still maybe more truth resounding as it is. Found it is a breathless reading, as if she was speaking through a recording: was seeing it mindly: so frank, brutal but deep sometimes too, as this book is. Is making me think much more than expected and this I like. Moved me to tears also, sharing what she thought and said. A luxury spoiled child? Well, a Summerhill child, to me. Living as free as never imagined a daughter of the hippy generation would. But Freedom does not mean to have an absent father who does not care much or as supposed to, about you. As a result, Mackenzie went wild, trying always to call the attention of Papa John. Surely not understanding, same as me and the millions who still love his music, why someone so brilliant and romantic (in his words and songs), could have that "other" dark and irresponsible side. Now have to read HIS book as well, for what this left me is the will, even the need, to understand or try to the mislead artist he might have been. Only the ones closer to him, friends, women and other artists surrounding him could let us know a bit more about what was in his tortured soul. Wish to have known him, do not blame him, for he surely was sick, hiddening in drugs a whole life, not wanting to touch reality. Not too much, anycase. Very fragile, in the inner way, he must have been. About her, well, I admire the woman behind this book. Have no doubt she is telling the truth about it all. And do not doubt neither than if she went through all these raw, too often painful memoirs it was not to make money or hurt anybody. Has obviously been a sort of therapy this punch of a writing. Have to explain herself the anger she surely felt and dry the tears within, the burden of secrets beyond words to express. Twice raped, kidnapped, with blanks of consciousness, bordering several times death, and then, his icon all time failing her. Showing her his mud foot all her life through. Sort of a weird loony dad she had? Many would have suicided having to carry such a life, in fact too many did. Others went mad or deeply depressed, ended being a crack up toy, unable to do nothing. Not she. She managed to work all her life and earned so well her peanuts as to help others, included her erratic father. She also made a family and had plenty of happy times too. Fought hardly to go through all that hell of a mess. So, HATS OFF TO MACKENZIE PHILLIPS, such a brave, sensitive and heartful being. She deserves the best. A GREAT BOOK, A MUST READ, WRITTEN BY A COOL, FRIENDLY LOVING MIND. This is what I think, that is how I feel. P.S.- By the way, have someone heard about the incestuous relationship Lawrence Durrell had with her daughter? Michelle and that part of the family should know, it did not ruin the family reputation, nor seem to damage the daughter in excess. And far from praising such an aberration, of course. Just say that the more we know about the human being, the better. Hope to be useful to somebody and not have been too long and boring.

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Rekha

very hard book to read

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023

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Very hard book to write and read but I appreciate her authenticity. She is a strong loving person that was able to forgive many in her life.

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"Papa John's" aftermath

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As a teen I was both a fan of old Mamas and the Papas records and of Mackenzie Phillips as "Julie Cooper" on "One Day at a Time." Having previously read her father, John Phillips', autobiography "Papa John" as well as other books mentioning Mack (such as "Wonderland Avenue", written by her late friend Danny Sugerman), I had a pretty good idea what the subject matter of "High on Arrival" was going to be. Mack handles it surprisingly well. She covers many of the same incidents reported in "Papa John" - her father's multiple desertions of his children, residences, and bills; his laissez-faire parenting style (including letting his kids dip into his drug stash), leading to Mack's own teenage drug use; her rape while hitch-hiking and other random incidents of near-rape, domestic violence etc. She goes on from there to talk about her marriage, raising her son, rehab, and relapse.

Just as in "Papa John," the only sane people in the Phillips family seem to be Mack's Aunt Rosie and her stepmother Michelle Phillips, both of whom attempt, mostly in vain, to provide some structure and discipline while Mack's biological parents and her other step-parents ignore or abuse her. Mack had the lonely, empty, Hollywood-rich-kid-on-drugs life that Bret Easton Ellis writes about, and had it in the era when drugs weren't considered evil and stars didn't pop in and out of rehab with the frequency they do now. It's pretty amazing that she has managed to (a) survive, (b) do some good acting and musical work, and (c) be any sort of functional parent at all to her own son.

Those who are upset about this book somehow "tarnishing" John Phillips' image obviously never read "Papa John," which was a no-holds-barred tale of substance abuse, evasion of responsibility, and debauchery on a Rolling Stones level - not surprising, given that Keith Richards was one of John's regular drug buddies. It ended with John Phillips seemingly still in the throes of a severe alcohol addiction and dating women young enough to be his daughters, so it is just a short hop skip and a jump to the same guy getting so wasted that he repeatedly has some sort of incest with his daughter, who is also wasted most of the time this is going on, and constantly longing for her distant father. The incest, which got all the press attention, is a fairly small part of the book and just one more brick in the wall of John's general mishandling of his parental responsibilities, actually pretty much ALL his life responsibilities. (John himself had a horrifically dysfunctional childhood as recounted in "Papa John" so his behavior towards his kids is sadly believable.) Despite all of this mess, Mack's feelings towards her father and the rest of her problematic extended family come across as genuinely, sincerely loving, when I would have expected snark or "Mommie Dearest" type angst.

Aside from the family memoir and Mack's reminiscences about working on "One Day", a lot of the book is your standard ex-junkie horror stories about scoring in strange cities, withdrawal, the effect on the family, relapse. Unlike some of the authors of such tales (including her father), Mack seems willing to take responsibility for her actions and mistakes, and you end up rooting for her to come out the winner. A better-than-average tale of Hollywood excess.

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JayJay56

Real story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2022

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I was looking for a long time to buy the book, finally I have got it - bought it used but looks like new. I really enjoy reading it! It is a sad story life but I am trying to focus on the positive side.

Sue

The most sad book I have ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2021

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I cannot remember ever reading a more sad book in my 73 years and I have read a few as a lecturer! This was an honest account of the most "disadvantaged" childhood by the author. Thank heavens she came through it and lived to tell the tale. I am so glad that she did so that she can help others.

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Raymond McDouall

Not worth the read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2018

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Poorly put together, you have to question just how much she truthfully could remember.