Underpriviledged

Chris Gardner went from an underpriviledged childhood to become a wealthy stock broker and entrepreneur, and managed to deal with single fatherhood before it was culturally accepted. His memoir, Pursuit of Happyness, spends a lot of time telling that difficult childhood and his change to the military and to time spent working in medicine. The story got more interesting, when Gardner is living in San Francisco determined to raise his son and succeed as a stockbroker, even though he never went to college.