What I Know for Sure
My Story of Growing Up in America
by Tavis Smiley

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Release Date: January 8, 2008. Orders placed now will be held until the release date.

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.

What I Know for Sure
My Story of Growing Up in America
by Tavis Smiley

ISBN: 9780385721721
ISBN-10: 0385721722
Publisher: Anchor Books (Random House)
Publication Date: 2008
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Book Type: New

This title is also available in a hardcover edition: What I Know for Sure [HC]