Step out on nothing: how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges
✍ Scribed by Byron Pitts
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group; St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, United States.
- ISBN
- 0312577664
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes . Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."
...If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Pitts, your son cannot read."
In Step Out on Nothing , Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstacles to achieve enormous success in life. Throughout Byron's difficult youth--his parents separated when he was twelve and his mother worked two jobs to make ends meet--he suffered from a debilitating stutter. But Byron was keeping an even more embarrassing secret: He was also functionally illiterate. For a kid from inner-city Baltimore, it was a recipe for failure.
Pitts turned struggle into strength and overcame both...
✦ Subjects
United States