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Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present

by Hank Stuever · 2009

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Stuever searches out the most outlandish cultural excesses as well as the secret beauties of modern Americas half-trillion-dollar Christmas holiday. Stuevers portraits are at once humane, heartfelt, revealingand very funny.

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sociologysociologyMore like thisLess of this
Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
ChristmasChristmasMore like thisLess of thissocial issuessocial issuesMore like thisLess of this
Setting
ChristmasChristmasMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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