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# Christmas: A Biography

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    It's not the story you expect
  

*by F***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2018*

Judith Flanders' book, "Christmas: A Biography," chronicles the history of the holiday from the earliest records of celebration to the modern day. It is well written and researched, even handed and very engaging. After all, Christmas is relevant to just about everyone. Flanders' thesis seems to be that Christmas was not a sacred day that gradually became a cultural holiday before being commercialized in modern times. We think that is the story of Christmas -- everyone has always thought that was the story of Christmas. Not true: the really story involves the very human need to feast and celebrate in the depth of winter. This need is so engrained that religious leaders decided to move the celebration of the birth of Jesus to end of December in an attempt to sanctify the revelry. But is has almost never worked. Christmas celebrations have always involved groups of people acting silly (sometimes in public sometimes not), eating large amount of food and usually drinking while every merchant tried to make money off the holiday. Sometimes Christmas celebrations involved church but often did not. In every era there is a longing for Christmas in the old days which were imagined to be pure, free from commercialism and crassness so much so that almost nothing could be introduced into the Christmas season without it being somehow connected to Christmas in the old days - even if it was just made up recently. This is true of Christmas Carols and Christmas presents. Flanders is an astute cultural historian and she know her stuff. Her speciality is Victorian England so that portion of the book really shines especially as she shows how the Victorians pined for the Christmases of Tudor England even as they were creating the Christmas that everyone in the twentieth century would look back to with nostalgia. This was endlessly fascinating. If there is a weakness to the book it is the Flanders seems to revel in the lack of religion in most Christmas celebrations and too quickly dismisses how deeply meaningful the season can be for faithful Christians.

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    Decent overview, but more like a podcast version of a non-fiction book
  

*by A***K on Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2020*

I've been looking forward to this book and enjoyed Ms. Flander's Victorian City book, but this one was disappointing.On the good side, this is a very broad overview of Christmas, beginning with ancient times and going all the way to the present. It focuses mostly on Britain, Europe, and America (though focusing mostly on areas of America that were significantly influenced by German, Dutch, and British customs). It gives some really interesting background on some of the traditions and even discusses the various attitudes -- both religious and secular -- towards the holiday.But the organization is haphazard at best. The book seemed focused on a chronological structure, with the first few chapters dedicated to individual time periods (like medieval and Tudor), but as it hits the Georgian, Regency, and Victorian, it starts jumping back and forth between a chronological organization and subject matter organization... and then geographical as it jumped between different countries and ethnic groups. I tried to take notes on what's in each chapter, but there wasn't any clear theme. It made it difficult to follow the author's thought process and led to repetition.And I'm a little shocked that a non-fiction book like this has no index and only a very small number of citations (and those are only listed in the text). There's tons of general notes at the end, but nothing else to back up some of the hypothesis and claims she made. It's hard to take what she says as fact at times.There's something about the book that feels like a podcast-type of info dump. A little rambling and hit-and-miss research. Something to take with a hefty grain of salt. I really enjoyed her book on Victorian London, but this one feels a lot more disjointed and thrown together.It's a decent jumping-off point if you're researching Christmas, but nowhere near a definitive "biography."

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    Where is the research?
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019*

As a historian, I have been trained to research my work. I do not see any footnotes to check facts. Disappointing as it is almost as if the author hates Christmas and wants to debunk what we hold dear to our hearts.It is a religious holiday and tradition passed from family to family to generation. It is a blended holiday adapted to each person's belief.

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