Sam Walton: Made in America: My Story - Hardcover

Sam Walton; John Huey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385468474 ISBN 13: 9780385468473

Publisher: Doubleday, 1992

Synopsis

In an autobiographical account of his rise to the pinnacle of the American retail business, the personal reminiscences of the late billionaire retailer are combined with dozens of interviews with Sam Walton's family and friends. Large first printing. Major ad/promo.

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From the Publisher

Meet a geniune American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, An undisputed captain of commerce, Sam never lost the common touch-he reveled in it. And here, finally Sam Walton tells his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words. Genuinely modest but always sure of his ambitions and achievements, Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight from the shoulder style.

From the Inside Flap

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.  The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch.  Here, finally, inimitable words.  Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements.  Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style.

In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
From the Paperback edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0385468474
• ISBN 13: 9780385468473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 269