Sam Walton : The Inside Story of America's Richest Man

Vance H. Trimble

ISBN 10: 0525249842 / ISBN 13: 9780525249849

Published by Dutton, NY 1990, 1990

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Hardcover First Ed. Business, Biography, History. Biography of the Founder of Wal-Mart. (319 Pgs.) Pictorial DJ, VVG.

Seller Inventory # AA-HC-8127

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sam Walton : The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
• Publisher: Dutton, NY 1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525249842
• ISBN 13: 9780525249849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography, History

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Synopsis

This is a non fiction hardcover book an autobiography about the history of Wal Mart and Sam Walton. Great book for entrepreneurs, business men and women. This well-written Horatio Alger-like tale of 72-year-old, Arkansas-born Walton is refreshingly upbeat, in contrast to the life stories of some other contemporary entrepreneurs. Walton was a publicity-shy, multibillionaire businessman who was heads the Wal-Mart discount chain he founded in 1962. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trimble, editor of the Kentucky Post , bases the biography on interviews with hundreds of ``associates,'' as their boss calls his employees, all testifying to the hard work, integrity, business acumen and common-touch gift for human relations to which they attribute his success. Walton was also a passionate quail hunter and tennis player, drove an old pickup and piloted his own Cessna.