Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Philip Van Doren Stern
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    -ESSAY: Premiere of a Christmas Classic It’s a Wonderful Life had its first screening on 20 December 1946 (Mathew Lyons, 12 December 2022, History Today)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: It’s a Wonderful Life: the perfect Christmas film?: The 1946 classic is a timely reminder that affection and loyalty can surface in the most difficult of circumstances (Alexander Larman, 12/21/20, The Critic)
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    -ESSAY:George Bailey’s America (JACK BUTLER, January 6, 2022, National Review)
    -ESSAY: Is It Really A Wonderful Life?: George Bailey's Dark Side (Patrick J. Deneen, December 19, 1997, Commonweal)
    -ESSAY: Christmas With Capra: Classic Films for Our Troubled Times (Louis Markos, December 14th, 2021, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: George Bailey Is A Localist Hero: Heroes aren't perfect, but they always save their towns—and, most importantly, the people who live in them. (Carmel Richardson, 12/24/21, American Conservative))
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