TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gardner,Chris
TI  - The pursuit of happyness
SN  - 0060744871 (pbk.)
AV  - HG4928.5 .G365 2006
U1  - 332.62092 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Amistad
KW  - Gardner, Chris
KW  - Stockbrokers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Fathers
KW  - African Americans
N1  - Film tie-in; Prologue. Go forward -- 1. Candy -- 2. The no-daddy blues -- 3. Where's momma? -- 4. Bitches brew (side a) -- 5. Bitches brew (side b) -- 6. The world beyond -- 7. Pictures of a life -- 8. Turned out (an intro) -- 9. Turned out (advanced) -- 10. California dreamin' -- 11. Roses in the ghetto -- 12. Sphere of influence -- Epilogue. Blessed beyond the dreams of a thousand men
N2  - At the age of twenty, African American 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 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 in shelters, "HO-tels", and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner went from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district.--From publisher description
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