The Pursuit Of Happyness

I just watched this segment on Glenn Beck. I loved it so much, I had to do a post about it. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.




     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 Fran-
   cisco and went on to become a
   crown prince of Wall Street

     At the age of twenty, Milwaukee
   native Chris Gardner, just out of
   the Navy, arrived in San Fran-
   cisco to pursue a promising
   career in medicine. Considered a
   prodigy in scientific research, he
   surprised everyone and himself
                                                                         by setting his sights on the comp-
etitive 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.

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.

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, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.

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