America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally
important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and
Thanksgiving - came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious
celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture.
Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David
Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each
holiday's traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is
today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin
trick-or-treating on Halloween?
Appealing and insightful, America's Favorite Holidays satisfies our
curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the fascinating ways in
which religion and culture mix.