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Item:The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner Bio Will Smith

The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner Bio Will Smith

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Author: Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler Rivas, Quincy TroupePublisher: Amistad Pr
ISBN-10: 0060744871Subject: Biography & Memoir
ISBN-13: 9780060744878Topic: --
Format: PaperbackLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2006Condition: Very Good
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In his inspiring memoir, Chris Gardner recalls his difficult rise to the top of the financial world and his unyielding commitment to his son, even in the face of adversities that would have made others quit. Along the way, Gardner, whose father had abandoned him as a child, participates in an internship program for stockbrokers and finds himself homeless on the streets of San Francisco, with his young son. His ambition and smarts win out, and eventually Gardner becomes head of his own successful brokerage firm. (THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS was made into a 2006 movie, starring Will Smith.)

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Length:302 pages
Height:8.0 in.
Width:5.8 in.
Thickness:0.5 in.
Weight:16.0 oz.

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A triumphant, modern-day Horatio Alger story--based on the life that inspired the major motion picture--The Pursuit of Happyness is a memoir that will have you rooting for the underdog as it stirs you to pursue your own dreams. Abandoned by his own father and left to the vicious rage of a mean-spirited and abusive stepfather, Chris Gardner made a vow that no matter what happened in his life, he'd be a committed father figure to his children. Yet even the most well intentioned would have been excused for breaking that vow if confronted by the challenges that Gardner faced, circumstances that left him and his toddler son homeless, living on the streets of San Francisco. But rather than give up his son, Gardner continued to pursue his dream of becoming a successful stockbroker--despite having neither Wall Street experience nor even a college degree. Now a successful broker and the founder of Gardner Rich & Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage firm, Gardner epitomizes what it takes to claim the American Dream, even when others would doubt you.


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The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner Autobiography Will Smith

 

Up for bids is this soft cover version of The Pursuit of Happyness, which was written by Chris Gardner and is in VERY GOOD condition (NOT a library book; NO reminder mark; NO punch holes).

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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