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Introduction
The Search for the First Snowman

Part 1
THE MODERN SNOWMAN

Chapter One
The Age of Expansion: The Twenty-first Century

Chapter Two
The White Trash Years: 1975-2000

Chapter Three
The Hollywood Years: There's No Business Like Snow Business

Chapter Four
The Golden Age of Advertising Since the Early Twentieth Century: Snow Sells

Chapter Five
The Dean Martin Years: Drunken Debauchery and Other Misgivings

Chapter Six
Snowman Deconstructionism: Literary Circles

Chapter Seven
The Birth of a Media Star: 1870s-1910s

Chapter Eight
Snowman Photography since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Mr. Sound Bite

Intermission
A Comic Interlude of the Best Snowmen Cartoons

Part 2
THE RENAISSANCE SNOWMAN

Chapter Nine
The Revolution of 1870: The Snowman's French Roll

Chapter Ten
Made in America: The Snow Angel of 1856

Chapter Eleven
Eighteenth-Century Snow and Ice Sculpture: From Russia with Love Handles

Chapter Twelve
Early American Snowmen in the Seventeenth Century: New World, Fresh Snow

Chapter Thirteen
Snowman Exploration in the Late Sixteenth Century

Chapter Fourteen
Belgian Expressionism: The Miracle of 1511

Chapter Fifteen
Early Classism in Snow Sculpture: Politically Incorrect Fun

Chapter Sixteen
Italian Snowballs from the Fifteenth Century: The Two-Ball Theory

Chapter Seventeen
The First Snowman

Chapter Eighteen
The Ice Age: Who Came First, the Caveman or the Snowman?

Conclusion
The Complete Meltdown

Miscellanea
Bibliography
Acknowledgments