The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum

The Battle for Christmas

Stephen Nissenbaum

400 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassail...

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