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<p> [P]rovides readers with a deeper insight into the ways in which holidays have been used and misused throughout American history. We learn of how Americans come together on their special days and how those days, sometimes, reveal social strains. A necessary volume for anyone who cares about how Americans reveal community and perform civic obligation. -Gary Alan Fine, author of Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial

[A] new and welcome framework for understanding the meanings of holidays in our multi-cultural society. Any simple explanation of even the most familiar celebrations will be challenged in reading this wide-ranging collection. -Penne L. Restad, author of Christmas in America: A History [O]ffers an effervescent mix of sociological and historical reflections on the state of holidays and rituals in American culture. -Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays [P]rovides readers with a deeper insight into the ways in which holidays have been used and misused throughout American history. We learn of how Americans come together on their special days and how those days, sometimes, reveal social strains. A necessary volume for anyone who cares about how Americans reveal community and perform civic obligation. -Gary Alan Fine, author of Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial

[P]rovides readers with a deeper insight into the ways in which holidays have been used and misused throughout American history. We learn of how Americans come together on their special days and how those days, sometimes, reveal social strains. A necessary volume for anyone who cares about how Americans reveal community and perform civic obligation. -Gary Alan Fine, author of Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial

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David Childs is Professor of Politics at Nottingham University in England, and the author of 15 books on Germany, including Germany on the Road to Unity and Germany Since 1918. He predicted the demise of the East German regime in 1988 and was himself spied upon by the Stasi in Britain and in Germany. Richard Popplewell is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom, and was previously Bradley Fellow at Georgetown University.

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