Paths to Success: Beating the Odds in American Society

by Charles Harrington and Charles C. Karrington

Book Overview

Who would have thought that Joycelyn Elders, born into a family that chopped cotton and trapped raccoons to survive, would grow up to be Surgeon General of the United States? Or that Clarence Thomas, brought up by his barely literate grandfather, would someday be a Justice of the Supreme Court? Certainly not statisticians, who tell us that impoverished backgrounds are fairly accurate predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674657942
• ISBN13: 9780674657946
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"