“The Springboard in the Pond is a bracing intellectual plunge. A searching exploration of manners, morals, and darker truths in cultural and architectural history, it is both insightfully serious and wildly funny.” — Thomas S. Hines, Los Angeles Times “[R]ichly written and generously illustrated. . . . van Leeuwen succeeds in showing us the depths beneath the tinest ripples of history.” — Phil Patton, Civilization In The Springboard in the Pond, Th… More >>
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