I want all for Christmas: the holiday season, deeply observed, in an affluent Dallas suburb.

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I want all for Christmas: the holiday season, deeply observed, in an affluent Dallas suburb.

Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present

by Hank Stuever

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 352 pp.

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Pillar of the economy, climax of the calendar year, and wellspring of sentiment, myth, and moral teaching, Christmas is that institution which is so influential, so pervasive, so enormous that it seldom requires more than a pop lyricist to help reveal itself. A phenomenon more ripe for journalistic scrutiny, then, would be hard to find, which is why Hank Stuever, a ...

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