Gave a good biography of how Sam Walton's life and how he started Wal-Mart.

a look at walmart's beginnings

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.

While I have always been an opponent to the Wal Mart corporation and the sheer size of its business, I have a new found respect for the company and its founder. From humble beginnings (all the way to the end), you really have to hand it to Walton for his persistence in business.

"A sure-fire all-American success story."--The New York Times Book Review.

"Sam Walton helped start a revolution in the discount industry....How did he do it--in rural Arkansas, of all places?" -- The Flint Journal

This is the inspirational story of how Sam Walton started from relatively humble beginnings and created the giant retailer Wal-Mart.

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