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

Vance H. Trimble

ISBN 10: 0525249842 / ISBN 13: 9780525249849

Published by Dutton, New York, NY, 1990

About this Item

Dutton, New York. 1990. Hardcover. Stated First Printing and First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($19.95); light rubbing to panels. Blue paper over boards with blue cloth overlay on spine with bright red lettering on spine. Red endpapers. 319 pp 8vo. A superbly researched book on Sam Walton; the story of a quest that began in the dust bowl of OK in the Depression; to learning the principle of putting customer satisfaction above profits; to putting his ideas to work in a five and dime store in Arkansas; thus the first Wal-Mart was born. A rags to riches tale. A clean very presentable book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sam Walton; The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
• Publisher: Dutton, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525249842
• ISBN 13: 9780525249849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies
  • U.S. History/ Politics/ Presidental Matters
  • Business/Trade/Industry

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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.