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Contested Waters

A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

by Jeff Wiltse

2007 288 pages eng

"From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban po…

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