What I Know for Sure
My Story of Growing Up in America
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…
$15.95
January 8, 2008
Tavis Smiley is the host of Tavis Smiley, The Tavis Smiley Show, and Tavis Talks, as well as a regular commentator on ABC radio's popular Tom Joyner Morning Show. He is the author of the bestsellers How to Make Black America Better, Doing What’s Right, and Hard Left. He lives in Los Angeles.
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