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Made in America
My Story
First Edition: 1992 Mehr
Used by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780385426152
Pages: 288
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Wal-Mart is not just a gigantic retail company. It is the ultimate retailing juggernaut, setting the bar for products, packaging and pricing, and demolishing its competitors. Given its staggering influence, some would say Wal-Mart has become the very embodiment of retailing. The personality of Wal-Mart’s late founder, Sam Walton, is still a driving force, a source of homespun, countrified wisdom and old-fashioned common sense. In this engaging autobiography, Walton explains how he built his mammoth corporation from a small five-and-dime store in Bentonville, Arkansas. America’s ultimate entrepreneur was clearly a determined steamroller as a businessman, but, as his book makes clear, he was also a charmer.
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About the Authors
Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Forbes magazine identified him as the richest man in the U.S. from 1985 to 1988. John Huey is the editor in chief at Time Inc.
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