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Amistad
November 2006
On Sale: October 24, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0060744871
EAN: 9780060744878
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Non-Fiction
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless
father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets
of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of
Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just
out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a
promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in
scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by
setting his sights on the competitive world of high
finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level
position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself
caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances
that left him as part of the city's working homeless and
with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to
himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own
children, the two spent almost a year moving among
shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the
public restroom of a subway station. Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing
transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor
to being a powerful player in its financial district. More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is
the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men
abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and
unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures
heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals
to the very essence of the American Dream.
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