James LeVoy Sorenson (July 30, 1921 – January 20, 2008) was a lifelong inventor and entrepreneur, Utah's richest man, and founder and chairman of Sorenson Companies, a conglomerate of 32 corporations in industries ranging from medicine and bioscience to investment and development to manufacturing. His wealth was estimated to be $4.5 billion and he was one of the richest men in America, but his life did not start out with any wealth. At age ten, he was already a young and imaginative entrepreneur (though a slow learner in school and dyslexic), he sold magazines and worked in a fruit...