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The Pursuit of Happyness |
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by Chris Gardner, Quincy
Troupe, Quincy Troupe, Mim Eichler Rivas, Mim Eichler
Rivas
Pub. Date: October 2006
ISBN: 0060744871
ISBN-13: 9780060744878
Format: Paperback, 320pp
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Sales Rank: 94
List Price: $14.95
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Price: $11.96 Save 20% |
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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.
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