The battle to eliminate Christmas and other festive occasions that in part define America as a nation can no longer be ignored. Finally most Americans are waking up to this threat. However this cultural danger did not show up out of nowhere. In Yuletide Terror & Other Holiday Horrors columnist Frederick Meekins traces the development of this phenomena through a collection of essays dating as far back as the early 1990's. Along the way he examines the beliefs ideas and policies motivating these modern Scrooges in their attempt to recast the United States as a reflection of their coal-blackened hearts.