From the Office of the President at The City College of New York, the City College Libraries and Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications

Join us for the book launch of Matthew Goodman’s The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

Tuesday, November 05, 2019 Time: 7:30 p.m. The Great Hall of Shepard Hall

The powerful story of the 1949-1950 city college beavers, a 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.

Matthew Goodman is the author of three previous books of nonfiction: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History- Making Race Around the World; The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York; and Jewish Food: The World at Table. A New York Times bestseller, Eighty Days has been translated into eight languages. Goodman’s work has appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

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