LITTLE ROCK — "For me, a Jacuzzi is a person, not a machine. A Jacuzzi is a member of my family." So begins Spirit, Wind & Water: The Untold Story of the Jacuzzi Family, the new book by Remo Jacuzzi.

In the mid-1960s, while his peers at the University of California at Berkeley were cutting classes and demonstrating for or against various causes, Roy Jacuzzi was too busy to join in the protests. He ...