It looks how there came about such holiday traditions as Santa Claus, Christmas trees and trimmings, gift-giving and charity-giving, Christmas cards and wrappings. This book describes the evolution of Christmas celebration in America since the early 17th century. It is a time of public displays, illuminated department stores, and the showing of popular films such as Miracle on 34th Street, and It's a Wonderful Life. Twentieth-century America often seems obsessed with the idea of Christmas.
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