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He lives in a simple house in a small Southern town. He has been married to the same woman for almost five decades, drives a Chevy, dresses in store-bought clothes, and puts in long hours at his job. He also has made for himself and his family over nine billion dollars, more than any other man in America. This extraordinary person is Sam Walton, and this fascinating, superbly researched book pierces his carefully cultivated cloak of ordinariness to...

Part P.T. Barnum, part Billy Graham, his vision transformed shopping in America and made him one of the world's richest men. Sam Walton started life out as a poor depression era baby in Oklahoma's dust bowl. He became the richest man in the nation, single-handedly building his chain of Wal-Mart stores into the world's largest retailer. See how Sam built his empire from a single store to a global chain in less than thirty years, sneaking up on established...