The Fastest Game in the World

Bruce Berglund is best known to me as a historian of early Czechoslovakia--we met through Fulbright and both work on the interwar period. We have some other things in common too, like Minnesota origins. Bruce's latest book goes in a direction that gets to those northern roots--hockey and its history! In The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports, which is just out from University of California Press, Bruce looks at how hockey spread across the world and how games connect with politics, economics, and culture. You can read more about it here and order a copy in either hardback or paperback.