Old Kris Kringle himself tells the story of his life, throwing light on his childhood, on the workings of his toyshop, and on the mysteries of his Christmas Eve flight.

James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Robert M. Bird, Richard Dana, Herman Melville, Francis Parkman, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer.

Martin Green relates how two dissimilar figures from "distant" traditions, Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi, gradually reached the same imperative: utter renunciation of the imperialistic, war-like modern Western world system. --from vendor description.

More than crystals and occultism, New Age movements have existed throughout modern history in many guises, finding their strength and popularity in a visionary politics of hope at which realists traditionally balk. Yet what realist would have dreamed of the overnight end of the Cold War, German reunification, or the dismantling of Apartheid? In Prophets of a New Age, Martin Green takes a serious look at three centuries of a social and cultural movement...