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Author : Irena Chalmers
Publisher : Studio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great American Christmas Almanac written by Irena Chalmers and published by Studio Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irena Chalmers
Publisher : Studio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great American Christmas Almanac written by Irena Chalmers and published by Studio Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great American Novel written by William Carlos Williams and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the title, this book is not a serious attempt to writing a 'great American novel', which is a typical literature convention to refer to works that embody the essence of America, generally written by an American and dealing in some way with the question of America's national character. If anything it is the opposite - the book conveys the impossibility of writing such a novel through a satirical lens, by telling the love story between a Ford car and a Mack truck.
Author : Penne L. Restad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355091
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Christmas in America written by Penne L. Restad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674040625
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Merry Christmas! Celebrating AmericaÕs Greatest Holiday written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.
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ISBN 13 : 9780440847908
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Early American Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of a New England village never make much fuss about Christmas until a new family moves in and celebrates the holiday in a special way.
Author : Zach Shepherd
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781441531742
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great American Nobody written by Zach Shepherd and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas tends to bring thoughts of good cheer, festivity and the conjured image of a fat man in a red suit. For Dylan Kingsly it brings only the in-laws. This year is different though. The in-laws are still present, but so is a mysterious letter which forces him and his alter ego, Vinny, to face memories that are better left suppressed. Join the dysfunctional duo as they stroll through the pain of a turbulent childhood and a failed marriage. Dylan, using the only coping mechanism he knows, struggles on the issue of being a societal nobody with a brand of humor and cynicism all his own.
Author : Tracey V. Bateman
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607428849
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Prairie Christmas Collection written by Tracey V. Bateman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Christmas on the historical American Great Plains as retold by nine different multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney. Follow pioneers, immigrants, and orphans through their adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to find more than one favorite among the nine holiday romances in this unique collection to warm your heart and inspire your faith.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.6E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : PBS
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316417548
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great American Read: The Book of Books written by PBS and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel's social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more. Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edition covers, rejection letters, and other ephemera, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is a must-have book for all booklovers.
