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Charles Fishman


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Miami, Florida, The United States
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As a reporter, Charles Fishman has tried to get inside organizations, both familiar and secret, and explain how they work.
In the course of reporting about water to write The Big Thirst, Fishman has stood at the bottom of a half-million-gallon sewage tank, sampled water directly from the springs in San Pellegrino, Italy, and Poland Spring, Maine, and carried water on his head for 3 km with a group of Indian villagers.
Fishman’s previous book, the New York Times bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, was the first to crack open Wal-Mart’s wall of secrecy, and has become the standard for understanding Wal-Mart’s impact on our economy and on how we live. The Economist named it a “book of the year.”
Fishman is a former metro and national reporter for the
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Average rating: 3.69 · 12,594 ratings · 1,769 reviews · 17 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Wal-Mart Effect: How th...

3.83 avg rating — 3,664 ratings — published 2006 — 36 editions
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The Big Thirst: The Secret ...

3.96 avg rating — 1,793 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions
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One Giant Leap: The Impossi...

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You Can Fix Your Family

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Has Wal-Mart Found Its Soul...

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“What NASA did for semiconductor companies was teach them to make chips of near-perfect quality, to make them fast, in huge volumes, and to make them cheaper, faster, and better with each year.”
Charles Fishman, One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

“Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford”
Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

“Three times as many people worked on Apollo as on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.”
Charles Fishman, One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

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