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.
