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What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America

What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America

Smiley, Tavis

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0385721722
ISBN13: 9780385721721
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jan 8 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
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.

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