| What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America Contributor(s): Smiley, Tavis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385721722 ISBN-13: 9780385721721 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: From the man who catapulted "The Covenant with Black America" to the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain, and atonement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 7.96" (0.44 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller 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. In What I Know for Sure, Smiley recounts how he overcame his painful history and became one of America's most popular media figures. |