It's All a Game

"[A] timely book... a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history." — The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us even longer than the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It's All a Game, Tristan Donovan, British journalist and author of Replay: The History of…