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| Four other seasonal books that are better than Midcentury Christmas. |
I thought this was very much a superficial look at everybody's favourite festive season. Publishers love this kind of book; choose a subject, find an author and collect as much visual material as possible (hopefully copyright-free) and get it printed. The four chapters provide a mixed bag of mostly color images just dropped onto each spread. If only the selection of pictures had been more rigorous, for example, dropping the totally non-Christmas black and white photo of three men at the NORAD Air Defence Command center in Coloradio Springs (page 116) and using a grid throughout the book to display the pictures for the reader's benefit. One positive thing about the book is the square format.
I have other books that deliver the Yuletide experience better than Midcentury Christmas. Three by Susan Waggoner: It's wonderful Christmas, Under the tree and Christmas memories are worth checking out and Christmas wishes by Tim Hollis is an excellent look back at how commercial the season can be.
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