Sweden’s banks have drawn criticism from Finance Minister Anders Borg for failing to cut mortgage rates. Their reluctance to do so is about the only thing preventing a full-blown housing bubble.

Roland Borg’s grandfather, Fritz, became the night watchman in 1921, and his wool coat “still hangs in a corner of the keep’s rafters,” Stein writes. Twenty years later, Fritz’s son ...

Fila was only one of Borg’s suitors. “At the tender age of 20,” reported the AP in 1977, “Björn Borg is a walking, talking, racquet-swinging conglomerate. His racquet arm belongs to Bancroft.