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 Santa Claus. Includes information on Dayton department stores' Santabear
History
1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages) : illustrations
9780674040625, 9780674006799, 0674040627, 0674006798
609017034
Contents Preface 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 Notes Acknowledgments Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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