BROADCASTS.com

Santa Claus, as we know him, didn\u2019t originate from Clement C. Moore\u2019s popular poem, \u201cThe Night Before Christmas,\u201d as is often thought, or from Washington Irving\u2019s History of New York, as suggested by Berkeley historian Charles W. Jones. Our American Santa Claus was, in fact, created by a New York printer in 1821 in a booklet called The Children\u2019s Friend, explains author Tom Jerman.

His fascinating new book, Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers, is a comprehensive history and homage to the world\u2019s midwinter gift-givers, showcasing their extreme diversity as well as the many traits these characters share. It tracks the evolution of these figures across thousands of years, eventually landing on how an untitled poem by a wealthy New Yorker in 1822 gradually created an enduring tradition in which American children awaken on Christmas morning to see what Santa brought.

The product of years of exhaustive historical research, Santa Claus Worldwide is the first legitimate history of Santa Claus in more than a decade, and the first history in more than 100 years to provide a comprehensive look at the Yuletide gift-givers throughout the world.

Readers will discover:

\u2022 How midwinter gift-givers developed over thousands of years;
\u2022 The difference between Catholic followers of St. Nicholas and Protestant followers of the secular \u201cterror men\u201d in Europe following the Reformation;
\u2022 Historical examples of midwinter gift-givers who were female, Black, rich, gay, atheist and communist;
\u2022 When and how a New York printer named William Gilley created the \u201cAmerican Santa Claus\u201d in an 1821 booklet, The Children\u2019s Friend;
\u2022 How a wealthy New York professor, Clement C. Moore, bought a copy of The Children\u2019s Friend and, in 1822, wrote \u201cThe Night Before Christmas;\u201d and
\u2022 How The Children\u2019s Friend disappeared from history until it was rediscovered in 1953.

Ultimately, Santa Claus Worldwide proves, conclusively, the existence of Santa and his impact on our world.

\u201cSanta indisputably exists as the symbol of Christmas, and Christmas represents our most noble virtues,\u201d Jerman says. \u201cSymbols are real, and they can be very powerful.\u201d

About the Author
Tom A. Jerman, a resident of Asheville, N.C., has bachelor\u2019s degrees in philosophy and journalism and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Utah. Employed as a copy editor with The Salt Lake Tribune between 1974-78, he went on to practice labor and employment law for 35 years. In 2015, he took early retirement to pursue his desire to write something more interesting and enduring than legal treatises.

A serious collector, Jerman has amassed some 4,500 Santa figurines and ornaments, and thousands of antique postcards printed between 1900 and 1910. The enormous diversity of figures \u2014 temporal, geographic, historical, size, attire, date of gift-giving, mode of travel \u2014 prompted him to write Santa Claus Worldwide, the first volume of a planned trilogy.

For more information, please visit http://acollectionofsantas.com, or follow the author on Twitter at @tomajerman.

Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Midwinter Gift-Bringers
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
ISBN-10: \u200e1476680930
ISBN-13: \u200e978-1476680934
Available from Amazon.com, BN.com and other online retailers

About the show:
\u25ba Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com
\u25ba Need Goli Gummies? https://go.goli.com/1loveash5
\u25ba For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH584216
\u25ba Want the \u2018coldest\u2019 water? https://thecoldestwater.com/?ref=ashleybrown12
\u25ba Become A Podcast Legend: http://ashsaidit.podcastersmastery.zaxaa.com/s/6543767021305
\u25ba Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789
\u25ba SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee
\u25ba Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash
\u25ba Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
\u25ba Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh
\u25ba Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog
\u25ba Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/
#atlanta #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit\xae

Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "Ash Said It Daily" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, iHeart Radio & Google Play. This program has over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-ash-said-it-show--1213325/support.