What I Know for Sure My Story of Growing up in America

Name: What I Know for Sure My Story of Growing up in America
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ISBN: 9780385721721

ISBN-10: 0385721722

ISBN-13: 9780385721721

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Authors: Tavis Smiley, David Ritz

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From the man who catapulted theCovenant with BlackAmerica to number one on theNew York Timesbestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment. Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was scarce and the sight of other black faces even scarcer. Always an outsider because of his race, economic background, and Pentecostal religious beliefs, he was sustained by his family’s love. But one day his world was shattered when his father brutally beat him, sending him to the hospital and then into foster care for a period of time. InWhat I Know for Sure, Smiley recounts how he overcame his painful history and became one of America’s most…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.95" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Gulport to Gotham


Gotham to Gulfport


Gulfport to Bunker Hill


The Trailer and the Church


Men Were Walking on the Moon


The Bully and the Lesson


The Revelation


In My Father's House


Shame on the Smileys!


The Boxcar Children


A Rage That Reaches to Heaven


Despising the Shame


Turn the Fear to Energy


America Has Defaulted


High School Hierarchy


Hustle and Flow


Dangerous Unselfishness


Conflict of Sufferings


The Paradox Paradigm


IU


Brave New World


RIP Denver Smith


Madam Mayor


End of the Road


Urban Angels


Hustle and Flow Revisited


Urban Angels Revisited


Lame-Duck Hoosier


Chillin' in the Deep Freeze


End of the Eighties


I Lost


Just a Thought


A Good Bet


The Press and the President


Castro


Big Mama


Spring Thaw


Final Bet


The Beginning


Forces of Light


Index