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What I know for sure : my story of growing up in America

Title

What I know for sure : my story of growing up in America / Tavis Smiley, with David Ritz.

Author

Smiley, Tavis, 1964-

Publication

New York : Doubleday, 2006.

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Ritz, David.

Description

xii, 260 p.; 25 cm.

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Note

Includes index.

Contents

Gulfport 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.

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