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Book cover of The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

Steve Vogel Author Of A Task Force Called Faith

From Steve's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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This story seems particularly relevant in light of the recent NBA gambling scandal.

By Matthew Goodman ,

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4 authors picked The City Game as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall

“A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

The unlikeliest of champions, the 1949–50 City College Beavers were extraordinary by every measure. New York’s City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John

Steve Vogel Author Of A Task Force Called Faith

From Steve's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Author

Steve's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Steve Vogel Why Steve loves this book

Bruce Ware Allen brings to life the epic showdown between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John in 1565. The remarkable story is told with wit, verve and drama.

By Bruce Ware Allen ,

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1 author picked The Great Siege of Malta as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The siege force of Turks, Arabs, and Barbary corsairs from across the Muslim world outnumbered the defenders of Malta many times over, and its arrival began a…


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