Nissenbaum, Stephen. <br/><br/>
The battle for Christmas / 
Stephen Nissenbaum. 
 - 1st Vintage Books ed. 
 - New York :  Vintage Books,  1997, c1996. 
 - xiii, 381 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1996. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-367) and index. 
<br/><br/>New England's war on Christmas -- Revisiting "A visit from St. Nicholas" -- The parlor and the street -- Affection's gift : toward a history of Christmas presents -- Under the Christmas tree : a battle of generations -- Tiny Tim and other charity cases -- Wassiling across the color line : Christmas in the antebellum South -- Epilogue : The ghosts of Christmas past. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679740384 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christmas--History.--United States