2-in-1 boxed set includes a richly illustrated coffee table book with three music CDs in their own jewel case. Unique perspective of history and stories of American carols andholidays songs. Illustrated with American art from the Smithsonian museums, and other notable American museums and libraries, and include works by Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, and nostalgic images from The Saturday Evening Post, Scribners, LIFE, and Victorian Christmas cards. Historic recordings of White Christmas, The Christmas Song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, complemented by folk carols from the nation's heartland and Appalachia, and traditionalclassics from New England, New York, the South, and the Southwest. Described by a record collector's periodical and leading world authority on Christmas music as "one of greatest assemblages of Christmas music ever done."