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America's Favorite Holiday seasons explores how five of America's culturally important getaways - Christmas, ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving - came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily affected by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a variety of resources, Bruce David Forbes shows often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday's practices. Was Xmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday break? When performed we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? Fascinating and insightful, America's Favorite Holiday seasons satisfies our curiosity about the origins of our getaways and the fascinating ways that faith and culture combine.
