Merry Christmas! : celebrating America's greatest holiday /
Describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become, showing the provenance and significance of each of its essential parts: the decorated trees and holiday lights, the cards and gifts and wrapping papers, the toy villages and store displays and Macy's holiday parade, Bing Crosby and Sant...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Wrapping paper unwrapped : holly boxes, tissue paper, and bows
- 2. The Christmas business : greenery, lights, ornaments, toy villages
- 3. Window shopping : department store displays, Santalands, and Macy's big parade
- 4. Olde Christmas : Dickens, Irving, and Christmas charity
- 5. O Tannenbaum : indoor and outdoor Christmas tree spectacles
- 6. Santa Claus is comin' to town : store Santas, kettle Santas, Coca-Cola Santas
- 7. Somebody else's Christmas : hot Christmas, black Christmas, faraway Christmas
- 8. Thinking of you at Christmas : cards or gifts?
- 9. Dreaming of a white Christmas : how Bing Crosby and the Grinch almost stole Christmas
- Postscript : a meditation on Christmas cookies.
