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ISBN10: 0771016689, ISBN13: 9780771016684, [publisher: McClelland & Stewart] Softcover Gerry Bowler received his Ph.D. in History from King&#8217s College, London, and presently teaches at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Santa Claus: A Biography and The World Encyclopedia of Christmas, and the co-author o.
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ISBN10: 0771016689, ISBN13: 9780771016684, [publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto] Softcover Paperback. An entertaining, often surprising look at the life of the worlds most influential fictional character.He is the embodiment of charity and generosity, a creation of mythology, a tool of clever capitalists. The very idea of him is enduring and powerful.Santa Claus was born in early-nineteenth-century America, but his family tree goes back seven hundred years to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Intervening generations were shaggy and strange whip-wielding menaces to naughty boys and girls. Yet as the raucous, outdoor, alcohol-fuelled holiday gave way to a more domestic, sentimental model, a new kind of gift-bringer was called for a loveable elf, still judgmental but far less threatening.In this engaging social and cultural history, Gerry Bowler examines the place of Santa Claus in history, literature, advertising, and art. He traces his metamorphosis from a beardless youth into a red-suited peddler. He reveals the lesser-known aspects of the gift-bringers life Santas involvement with social and political causes of all stripes (he enlisted on the Union side in the American Civil War), his starring role in the movies and as adman for gun-makers and insurance companies. And he demolishes the myths surrounding Santa Claus and Coca-Cola.Santa Claus: A Biography will stand as the classic work on the long-lived and multifarious Mr. Claus. An ...

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