Title: Santa Claus
First published: 2005
Description: An entertaining, often surprising look at the life of te world's most influential fictional character. He is the embodiment of charity and generousity, a creation of mythology, a tool of clever capitalists. The very idea of him is enduring and powerful. Santa Claus was born in early nineteenth-century America, but his family tree goes back seven hundred years to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children.
Subjects: Santa Claus
People: Nicholas Saint, Bp. of Myra
LC classification: GT4992 .B68 2005