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  • ISBN: 0670011770
  • Category: Сhildren's books
  • Author: Karen Blumenthal
  • Subcategory: Geography & Cultures
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers (July 7, 2011)
  • Pages: 192 pages
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  • Rating: 4.7
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Sam Walton grew up to become the founder of Wal-Mart, but he was born with practically nothing except a. .Karen Blumenthal is a former Wall Street Journal bureau chief and the author of Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX. She lives with her family in Dallas, Texas.

Sam Walton grew up to become the founder of Wal-Mart, but he was born with practically nothing except a compulsive drive to win - at football.

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Sam Walton grew up to become the founder of Wal-Mart, but he was born with practically nothing except a compulsive drive to win - at football, at becoming class president, at beating everyone no matter what the game. His eventual empire started as nothing more than a dingy one-room general store. He created Wal-Mart - and his massive wealth - one building at a time, one town at a time. This is not a history of his company, but the biography of an uncomplicated man who just wanted to beat the guy down the street. More than forty black-and-white photos illustrate the text.

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By: Karen Blumenthal. School Library Journal. Sam Walton-a pioneer of American commerce-was a big dreamer, a tough competitor, and the founder of the world’s largest retail chain. What is promoted as a biography offers much more in the form of a history of Wal-Mart and the evolution of sales and merchandising in American stores over the second half of the 20th century. Frequent black-and-white snapshots provide a visual overview, but the more than half a dozen graphics showing the distribution of income for typical Americ.

Sam Walton grew up to become the founder of Wal-Mart, but he was born with practically nothing except a compulsive drive to win - at football, at becoming class.

When he died in 1992, Sam Walton left behind a multibillion-dollar retail empire that today comprises over 9,000 stores in 15 countries; Blumenthal chronicles Walton's remarkable rise from humble beginnings to.

When he died in 1992, Sam Walton left behind a multibillion-dollar retail empire that today comprises over 9,000 stores in 15 countries; Blumenthal chronicles Walton's remarkable rise from humble beginnings to becoming the founder of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. MR. SAM. How Sam Walton Built Wal-Mart and Became America's Richest Man. by Karen Blumenthal.

Sam Walton grew up to become the founder of Wal-Mart, but he was born with practically nothing except a compulsive drive to win - at football, at becoming class president, at beating everyone no matter what the game. His eventual empire started as nothing more than a dingy one-room general store. He created Wal-Mart - and his massive wealth - one building at a time, one town at a time. This is not a history of his company, but the biography of an uncomplicated man who just wanted to beat the guy down the street. More than forty black-and-white photos illustrate the text.
Reviews about Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man (6):
Sti
This book was highly enjoyable and informative. After reading many books on Sam Walton as well as his own authobiography, I found this book to be an excellent and honest profile of this highly successful businessman. What we see is an overview of a man who built the largest company in the world through pure hustle, determination, commitment, hard work and focus. In addition to the content, the book also provided some very informative graphs and charts that I thought were very useful.

What I also liked was that the book was very honest in the sense that it also mentioned and discussed some criticisms that Mr. Walton experienced throughout his business career. It gave us an inside look to his philosophies and how he conducted his business. Whether you agree or not with his practices, there is no doubt that this man was one of the greatest and most successful businessman who ever lived. More amazing, he built his chain stores one store at a time while keeping his work ethic and company culture intact. The net value of his family today make them by far the wealthiest family in the world. Him and his company are definitely ones to be repsected and admired.

Although, this book is geared towards students, I highly recommend it to adults and buisnessmen everywhere. It is a very easy and enjoyable read while providing a lot of business advice and insights. Whoever reads this book will not be disappointed.
Naa
Great read, what an amazing guy and a great run down of his life and the staged growth of Walmart. Love Walmart or hate it what a story. It is also very cool to know were most retailing sales idea's come from, and how they are just rolled out again and again.
lacki
In this book about Sam Walton I learned a lot. Sam Walton grew up in Missouri and moved to Bentonville, Arkansas when he introduced Walmart. Sam Walton was very poor in his childhood and I learned to never give up. When Sam Walton never gave up, he became the nation's richest man alive. Sam Walton was a normal american man. He only had an old rusty pickup truck for the richest man. I liked this book because of its detail regarding Sam's experiences in his lifetime. For example, instead of using a computer to monitor the competitors' rates he would go around himself from store to store. He also involved his family in every aspect of his company. Anyone who is interested in buisness and how to move up in the food chain should read this book. It will also remind you to never give up. Sam Walton wasn't known as the really rich guy with tons of money and nice cars. He was the nice old american man who had the best deals in town. Sam Walton was MADE IN AMERICA.
Gholbithris
Back in 1945, a hard-working and determined young man named Sam Walton opened his own store: a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. As he continued to do throughout his career, Sam eagerly increased his store's sales with strategic retailing practices, including discount pricing, innovative features, and aggressive moves to beat the competition. Over the next several decades, what started with one store grew into a massive retail corporation known to the world as Wal-Mart.

Although Wal-Mart gave American consumers (and subsequently consumers in countries around the world) access to goods at extremely low prices, over the years the company also drew increasing fire for some of its business practices. Critics argued that Wal-Mart promoted mostly white men to higher-level managerial positions, drove smaller stores out of business, gave relatively little to charitable organizations, and purchased goods from developing country factories with poor labor standards.

In this interesting biography, Karen Blumenthal provides an informative account of how Sam Walton built up his business to become the world's largest retail company. Thoroughly entwined in the narrative are numerous lessons in economics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, supply, and demand. The book is well-researched and provides a balanced account of the strengths and weaknesses underlying Sam Walton's profitable, aggressive, and controversial drive to provide consumers with the lowest prices in the market.
Vushura
The book Mr. Sam : how Sam Walton built Wal-Mart and became America's richest man by Karen Blumenthal was a very interesting book. I liked learning how he started with a small business and then started adding more places as he got more money. Then he took people’s ideas from their stores what he thought was in and put it in his stores. He always wanted to keep improving and was always working on how he could me something better. He did not start off with wal mart but then as he made more money, then that's when he came up with the idea of wal mart. It just is a good book for anyone above the age of eight. It is easy language to read and is not that long. It just a really good book and I recommend this book to anyone.
Huston
I liked the history in this book and the descriptive pictures.

Sam Walton was a very famous man who was the founder of the store Walmart. This book describes his life and business.
-Jacob S.

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