Step Out On Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
By Byron Pitts
From Publisher's Synopsis... Throughout Byron's difficult youth. 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 of his impediments. After fifteen years in local television, he landed a job as a correspondent for CBS News in 1998, and went on to become an Emmy Award-winning journalist and a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. [This] uplifting story will resonate with anyone who has felt like giving up in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships.
