SNAPSHOT REVIEW

SNAPSHOT REVIEW

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mary Foster, The Associated Press

Everything They Had

David Halberstam

(Hyperion, $24.95)

Even if you have no interest in sports you can enjoy Halberstam's graceful writing about them.

Halberstam, who was killed in a car crash last year at age 73, won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnam War, and was nominated as a finalist this year in the history category for The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.

No one was better at combining narrative storytelling with reporting. He works that magic in Everything They Had, a compilation of articles he wrote for other publications.

He covers the expected, such as baseball, football and basketball, and the esoteric (fishing, fencing, fitness), and why people are interested in sports beyond the betting line.

Everything They Had is a book to savor and to which to frequently return.

Mary Foster,

The Associated Press

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