The Great Santa Search by Jeff Guinn

The Great Santa Search by Jeff Guinn

This follow-up to Jeff Guinn's bestselling holiday favorites The Autobiography of Santa Claus and How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas takes readers on a sleigh ride through the history of Christmas in America that lands smack-dab in 2006, as a new reality TV show threatens to destroy the true spirit of Christmas.

This third installment in Jeff Guinn's bestselling Christmas Chronicles series finds Santa facing perhaps the biggest challenge of his career. As Santa himself relates in this delightful holiday read, the trouble began in 1841, when a Philadelphia merchant named J.W. Parkinson hired a neighbor to dress as Kris Kringle in order to lure shoppers into his dry-goods store. Much to Santa's chagrin, it's been pretty much downhill since. It seems everybody wants a piece of Christmas, and through the years, it has gotten worse--to the point that not a Christmas can go by without phony Santas posing on street corners across the country. But when, in 2006, it's announced that a new reality TV show called The Great Santa Search will feature a competition to find the "real" St. Nicholas, Santa knows it's time to step in!

With all the rich historical detail and glorious Christmas cheer that made The Autobiography of Santa Claus and How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas treasured family favorites, The Great Santa Search is destined to become yet another Christmas classic from Jeff Guinn.

Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of various works of fiction and nonfiction, including Silver City, Buffalo Trail, Glorious, Manson, The Final Gunfight, and Go Down Together: The Real, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which won the TCU Texas Book Prize in 2016. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, as well as a former books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and an award-winning investigative journalist. Guinn is a resident of Fort Worth.

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ISBN 13	9781585425990
ISBN 10	1585425990
Title	The Great Santa Search
Author	Jeff Guinn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2007-10-18
Number of pages	336
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