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American Christmas, 1952

At the height of the Cold War, the famed writer took Christmas as the occasion to deliver an invective against the "faces of the American Century, full of such an immense irresponsibility toward themselves."

December 27, 1952

Algren American Christmas by TheNationMagazine on Scribd

Nelson AlgrenNelson Algren (1909-1981) won the first National Book Award for fiction in 1950 for The Man With the Golden Arm.

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