Sidney Poitier. (2007). The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Sidney Poitier. 2007. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography. HarperAudio.

Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography. HarperAudio, 2007.

Sidney Poitier. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2007.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/472/953/C8/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/472/953/C8/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: 8
        • value: harpercollins_audio#9780061374494
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780061374494
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780061374494
     2. • type: 8
        • value: harpercollins_audio#9780061374494
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780061355431

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Sidney Poitier

title

The Measure of a Man

dateAdded

2007-02-14T13:10:00-05:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=121559
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Measure of a Man A Spiritual Autobiography

crossRefId

121559

subtitle

A Spiritual Autobiography

id

472953c8-2c9d-4ea8-b8cf-8bbb096e153a

starRating

3.6

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 08:03:39
   • fileName: TheMeasureofaMan_9780061374494_121559
   • partCount: 7
   • fileSize: 230261648
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780061374494
     2. • type: 8
        • value: harpercollins_audio#9780061374494
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 1/26/2007
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/121559-TheMeasureOfAMan.mp3
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=472953c8-2c9d-4ea8-b8cf-8bbb096e153a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 07:59:39
   • fileName: MeasureofaMan
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 230235740
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780061374494
     2. • type: 8
        • value: harpercollins_audio#9780061374494
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 1/26/2007
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/121559-TheMeasureOfAMan.mp3
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=472953c8-2c9d-4ea8-b8cf-8bbb096e153a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: Entertainment

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Poitier, Sidney
   • bioText:

     Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Lilies of the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and To Sir, With Love. He has starred in over forty films, directed nine, and written four. He is the author of two autobiographies: This Life and the ""Oprah's Book Club"" pick and New York Times bestseller The Measure of a Man. Among many other accolades, Poitier has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, for an outstanding career and humanitarian accomplishment. He is married, has six daughters, four grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

   • name: Sidney Poitier
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Poitier, Sidney
   • bioText:

     Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Lilies of the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and To Sir, With Love. He has starred in over forty films, directed nine, and written four. He is the author of two autobiographies: This Life and the ""Oprah's Book Club"" pick and New York Times bestseller The Measure of a Man. Among many other accolades, Poitier has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, for an outstanding career and humanitarian accomplishment. He is married, has six daughters, four grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

   • name: Sidney Poitier

imprint

HarperAudio

publishDate

2007-01-26T00:00:00-05:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Measure of a Man

fullDescription

In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.

Poitier credits his parents and his childhood on tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas for equipping him with the unflinching sense of right and wrong and of self-worth that he has never surrendered and that have dramatically shaped his world. Without television, radio, and material distractions to obscure what matters most, he could enjoy the simple things, endure the long commitments, and find true meaning in his life.

Poitier was uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life that would honor his upbringing and the invaluable legacy of his parents. Just a few years after his introduction to indoor plumbing and the automobile, Poitier broke racial barrier after racial barrier to launch a pioneering acting career. Committed to the notion that what one does for a living articulates who one is, Poitier played only forceful and affecting characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition.

Here is Poitier's own introspective look at what has informed his performances and his life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, price and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the price for artistic integrity. What emerges is a picture of a man in the face of limits - his own and the world's. A triumph of the spirit, The Measure of a Man captures the essential Poitier.

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content: Sidney Poitier, recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors Guild, is the only African-American actor ever to win an Oscar. The life experiences he explores frame his film career, fondly remembered by many. Poitier has crafted a memoir with articulate pride and self-reflection. His easy, conversational style makes it perfect for an audio experience. He conveys an elegance in speaking, yet maintains a likable storytelling ease. We learn of his early, reckless days in the Bahamas and his hard work in gaining success as an actor in the '50s and '60s. Poitier depicts incidents of discrimination and coercion that convey an insightful and approachable portrait of the times. Poitier's humanism is a consistent theme, and he's charismatic throughout. Frank McCourt captured hearts with Angela's Ashes; in much the same way Sidney Poitier shares his values and experiences in this brilliant audio program. R.F.W. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 1, 2000
     Poitier's second memoir retains the soul-searching candor that marked his first (This Life, 1980), but lacks its narrative drive. After painting an idyllic portrait of his youth on Cat Island in the Bahamas ("a place of purity"), Poitier traces his path to Hollywood stardom with frustratingly broad strokes. (For the details of Poitier's journey, and his involvement in the civil rights movement, readers are left to consult his earlier work.) Poitier demonstrates the strength of his character with moving stories about his struggles with racism, and he includes anecdotes about his roles in such memorable productions as A Raisin in the Sun, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and A Patch of Blue. But in the end, this book reads like the random thoughts of a sincere and honorable celebrity channeled through the pen of an experienced and jaded ghostwriter. As an autobiography, it is "spiritual" only in the loosest sense of the term. Poitier's relationship with God, whom he conceives in Hollywood terms as a vague cosmic consciousness, is not mentioned until one of the last chapters of the book. Throughout, he offers moralizing reflections on rage, forgiveness ("a sacred process"), marriage, parenting, prostate cancer and the burning question of whether Sidney Poitier has a dark side. "I had come to believe a little bit in my own press clippings," he notes, reflecting on his reputation as a man of unusual integrity and virtue; for better and for worse, this book contains little to complicate that belief.

3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 1, 2000
     Given the personal nature of this narrative, it's impossible to imagine hearing anyone other than Poitier, with his distinctive, resonant voice and perfect enunciation, tell the story. In his second memoir Poitier talks about his childhood in the Caribbean, where he was terribly poor by American standards, but quite happy, swimming and climbing all he could. One of eight kids, Poitier was sent to live with an older brother in Miami when he started to get into difficulties as a teen. But frustrated by his inability to earn a living and by the disparaging way whites treated him, Poitier left Miami for New York. There he worked as a dishwasher, started a drama class and launched a celebrated acting career that led to starring roles in such classics as To Sir, with Love and Raisin in the Sun. Poitier's rendition of these events is so moving that listeners will wish this audio adaptation were twice as long. Simultaneous release with the Harper San Francisco hardcover (Forecasts, May 1).

popularity

1270

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/472953c8-2c9d-4ea8-b8cf-8bbb096e153a/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

472953c8-2c9d-4ea8-b8cf-8bbb096e153a

starRating

3.8

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/472/953/C8/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/472/953/C8/{472953C8-2C9D-4EA8-B8CF-8BBB096E153A}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: Performing Arts
3. • value: Religion & Spirituality
4. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

1/26/2007

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780061355431

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.

Poitier credits his parents and his childhood on tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas for equipping him with the unflinching sense of right and wrong and of self-worth that he has never surrendered and that have dramatically shaped his world. Without television, radio, and material distractions to obscure what matters most, he could enjoy the simple things, endure the long commitments, and find true meaning in his life.

Poitier was uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life that would honor his upbringing and the invaluable...

sortTitle

Measure of a Man A Spiritual Autobiography

crossRefId

121559

awards

1. • source: Audio Publishers Association
   • value: Audie Award
2. • source: Publishers Weekly
   • value: Listen Up Award

subtitle

A Spiritual Autobiography

publisher

HarperAudio

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO000000
   • description: Biography & Autobiography / General