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"The Pursuit of Happyness" by Chris Gardner Length: 5 hours and 42 min. ISBN: 0-0608-9788-0 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

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 20, 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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