Shoe Dog

Title: Shoe Dog

Author: Phil Knight

Pages: 12 discs

Genre: Memoir

Grade: A

Synopsis: Phil Knight was a track athlete at Oregon in the 1950s.  While at Oregon, he would often try out the running shoes made by his coach and mentor, Bill Bowerman.  After Knight finished business school at Stanford 1962 he used a reluctant $50 loan from his father to start importing shoes from Japan.  And, as they say, the rest is history.

My Review: This book surprised me.  I really enjoyed it.  It was honest, candid, funny, sad, happy and really interesting. The company started out of Knight's trunk and basement and he was tenacious and focused on growing his company to the behemoth that it is today.