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My book on the social conservative shift in our Christmas media from the McCarthy era was just published on Monday, and I'm currently working on an op-ed on GAC.

I take a hard, hard stance that Christmas is as pluralistic as the American people and Christian traditions are only a small part of it.
Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy, my new book exploring how Hollywood manipulated the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends, is the perfect Christmas gift for film and history lovers, or the perfect Thanksgiving bomb to lob into conversation. Have at it!
Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy|Hardcover
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for ...
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