TheSantaClausMan

THE SANTA CLAUS MAN The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York ALEX PALMER Guilford, Connecticut To Mom for her reading. To Dad for his storytelling. An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK Copyright © 2016 by Alex Palmer All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Palmer, Alex. The Santa Claus man : the rise and fall of a Jazz Age con man and the invention of Christmas in New York / Alex Palmer. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4930-0844-5 (hardcover) —ISBN 978-1-4930-1890-1 (e-book) 1. Gluck, John Duval, 1878-1951. 2. Santa Claus Association, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)—History. 3. Santa Claus—New York (State)—New York. 4. Christmas—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century. 5. United St......