03677cam a2200409 4500 501298020 TxAuBib 20210504120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780060744878 0060744871 9780061750588 0061750581 B000GCFX72 Amazon 2e8ed069-3697-48f6-aef4-948fd1fdb793 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 103191 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gardner, Chris. The Pursuit of Happyness [Libby eBook]. HarperCollins e-books, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2017kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 2086kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<blockquote> <i>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</i> </blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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, <i>The Pursuit of Happyness</i> conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-05-04 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/2E8/ED0/69/PursuitofHappyness0061191728.epub Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2E8ED069-3697-48F6-AEF4-948FD1FDB793&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/2E8/ED0/69/PursuitofHappyness0061191728.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2E8ED069-3697-48F6-AEF4-948FD1FDB793&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/2E8/ED0/69/PursuitofHappyness0061191728.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2E8ED069-3697-48F6-AEF4-948FD1FDB793&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/2E8/ED0/69/PursuitofHappyness0061191728.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2E8ED069-3697-48F6-AEF4-948FD1FDB793&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)