Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691017212
• ISBN13: 9780691017211
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Packed full of irony and interest

I read this in 1997, but am just now realizing I never reviewed it. It is beyond my imagination that anyone would not be riveted by this book. It traces the 19th and early 20th cent. evolution of a number of holidays with churchly roots that were co-opted by Hallmark and the dept. stores, often with the zealous cooperation of hapless Christians. Schmidt can tell a story with balance, accuracy, humor, and action.