Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The was was over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister, Sara – an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. Ans then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone – a  U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, and a man whose world-view did not tally with that of Eric and his friends

Set amidst the dynamics optimism of postwar New York and the subsequent nightmare of the McCarthy witch-hunts, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices, and the random workings of destiny.