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Step out on nothing : how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges / Byron Pitts.

Summary:

The author outlines the disadvantages he overcame in the pursuit of his career, from his abandonment by his father in childhood and tough inner-city upbringing to his speech impediment and functional illiteracy.

Record details

ISBN: 9780312577667
Physical Description: x, 290 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mustard seed faith : with it you can move mountains -- Keep your head up -- Quiet discipline -- Who's got your back? -- The hands that pull you up -- Letters from home -- An angel from Estonia -- Never say I'll try, say I will -- It never gets easier, you just get stronger -- Valley of the shadow of death -- Love the least of us -- The power of prayer and optimism -- The power of forgiveness : when father and son talk as men.