The Pursuit of Happyness CD

By Gardner, Chris & Blake, Andre

Publishers Summary:
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, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, 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, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his 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 from shelters, "HO-tels", and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner makes an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district. Here is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children, a story that appeals to the very essence of the American Dream. Read by Andre Blake

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ISBN
978-0-06089-788-8
Publisher
HarperAudio


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Reviewed on October 1, 2006

Gardner was born in Milwaukee in 1954, seemingly with the odds stacked against him. Not knowing his father and living with his mother, horribly abusive stepfather, and assorted half-sisters, he could have easily succumbed to the drugs, violence, and other atrocities available to young African American males. Instead, Gardner was told early on by his mother that he could achieve anything he put his mind to, and so he began setting and achiev...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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