The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner
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The Pursuit of Happyness

Author: Chris Gardner

Narrator: Andre Blake

Abridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/23/2006


Synopsis

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, 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.Read by Andre Blake

Author Bio

Chris Gardner is the Chief Executive of Gardner Rich & Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. An avid philanthropist and motivational speaker, Gardner is committed to many organizations—particularly those related to education—and was recently the recipient of the “Father of the Year Award” from the National Fatherhood Initiative. A Milwaukee native, Gardner has two children and resides in Chicago and New York.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Monalisa on 2007-09-24 20:52:30

I love this story. It shows me that no matter how bad things can seem it is your choice on how you handle things. He chose to make the most on what he hadand continue to strive for what he and his family deserved, and his hard work paid off. It takes a strong man to accomplish all that he has from where he had come from.