Genre: Non-fiction
This book shouldn't have been anywhere as good as it turned out. It's a story of the sports network ESPN and how it started up and until the present. It's over 700 pages long and I found it completely compelling as it weaved a story through only interviews of ESPN's initial birth from an idea in a car with a father and son, to the getting the money for the idea to take shape, and then everything that follows from that idea.
It's that interview format that I think really makes this story click. They interview a lot of people, from behind the scenes (people I didn't know about it) to just about every reporter ever to work for them. The interviews are candid and honest - this is a warts and all type of book and all the better for it.
Highly recommended.
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