The pursuit of happyness / Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe and Mim Eichler Rivas.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060744863
- ISBN: 9780060744861
- ISBN: 0060744871
- Physical Description: xii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Amistad, [2006]
- Copyright: ©2006
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- 41 of 49 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Alexander Main Library | B Gardner (Text) | 34269000814963 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | B GARDNER (Text) | 40599000693013 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | NFIC 921 GAR (Text) | 31111002361275 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| BHM Headquarters Library | B Gardner, C (Text) | 38344101178042 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bladen Main Branch | B GARDNER (Text) | 30441100432376 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Carver School Road Branch | B GARDNER, CHRIS (Text) | 0112519868288 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | B GARDNER, CHRIS (Text) | 0112519674736 | Adult Biography | Storage | - |
| Clemmons Branch | B GARDNER, CHRIS (Text) | 0112519867959 | Adult Biography | Storage | - |
| Clemmons Branch | B GARDNER, CHRIS (Text) | 0112519868304 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | B GARDNER (Text) | 22281500058988 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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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.
