Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The late Sam Walton was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America. Centered on the building of his Wal-Mart empire, his book, like fellow magnate Sandra Kurtzig’s CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from Ground Up ( LJ 5/1/91), is light [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The late Sam Walton was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America. Centered on the building of his Wal-Mart empire, his book, like fellow magnate Sandra Kurtzig’s CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from Ground Up ( LJ 5/1/91), is light [...]
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” the book looks like a Tom Clancy novel and anyone who likes those should be pleased with it ” (Independent on Sunday, 1 December 2002) “A superb new account of the legendary industrialist and philanthropist s life… timely, balanced… revealing.” Barron s [...]
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John Kenneth Galbraith has led an extraordinary life. The world’s most famous living economist started teaching at Harvard when he was just 25 years old and has sold seven million copies of his four dozen books. One reviewer said Galbraith wrote “history that reads like a poem.” During World War II, at [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
As portrayed by Washington Post columnist Mallaby, the charming, powerful, Australian-born millionaire James Wolfensohn works to transform the World Bank, of which he is president, from a Cold War dinosaur obsessed with regulations and procedures to an organization that is leanly and meanly focused [...]
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Amazon.com Review
John Kenneth Galbraith has led an extraordinary life. The world’s most famous living economist started teaching at Harvard when he was just 25 years old and has sold seven million copies of his four dozen books. One reviewer said Galbraith wrote “history that reads like [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The late Sam Walton was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America. Centered on the building of his Wal-Mart empire, his book, like fellow magnate Sandra Kurtzig’s CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from Ground Up ( LJ 5/1/91), is light on [...]
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
“Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart” is written in two parts. The first part describes why Wal-Mart, Home Depot and their kin are a threat to small community life in America. The second part gives you a game plan to stop Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers in your [...]
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