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Stumpf has a folksy, grandfatherly style of delivery that serves him well, whether he's talking about a set of lace curtains he saw in the window of a Swiss police station, Britain's lamentable phase-out of its archetypal red telephone booths, or his suggested redesign of the 747 to allow more passengers to enjoy the thrilling airborne views. Stumpf lives in Minneapolis (the titular ice palace was a 100-foot-plus sculpture at the neighboring St. Paul Winter Carnival), and his quiet celebration of his neighbor's way of life is somewhat reminiscent of Garrison Keillor, but with some urbane twists all his own.
--Tony Hiss, author of The Experience of Place
"Bill Stumpf reminds us that civilization is a thing of things. If the things that we own and use are boring, ugly, and uncomfortable, then the things we think and do will be the same. Stumpf suggests enjoyable improvements for modern life. And here is a truly civilized thing--a social reformer whose goal is to get people to have more fun."
--P. J. O'Rourke, author of Age and Guile Beat Youth,
Innocence, and A Bad Haircut
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