Miseducated A Memoir
eAudio - 2021
An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven.Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared.Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent him...self as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to...
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Hachette Audio
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File Size | 310 GB |
Parts | 13 |
ISBN | 9781549190032 |
Release Date | 6/15/2021 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 310 GB |
ISBN | 9781549190032 |
Release Date | 6/15/2021 |