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Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition
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Overview
Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition is the abridged version of American businessman Phil Knight’s 2016 memoir about his career as the founder of Nike. The book chronicles the years 1962 to 1980, beginning when Knight travels around the world and makes a deal to distribute Onitsuka athletic shoes in America and ending when Nike goes public and Knight becomes a multimillionaire. Published by Simon & Schuster, the Young Readers Edition is structured with a Prologue, 10 chapters each corresponding to a year of Knight’s life, and an Epilogue titled “A Final Letter to the Young Reader.” While the first 10 chapters are the same as they appear in the memoir’s original format, the final chapter is heavily abridged and details Nike’s first 10 years of existence.
Summary
Knight’s narrative begins as he has just returned to his parents’ house in Oregon after being away for seven years while attending college at the University of Oregon, attending graduate school at Stanford, and serving a year in the US Army. Out for an early morning run, Knight wonders what he is going to do with his life and decides that he first needs to see the world.
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