Jody Rosen & Jeff Guinn

Today, apropos to what day it is, two interviews from our recent archive. We'll go back to an interview I did about a year ago with Jeff Guinn, the author of the The Autobiography of Santa Claus, revealing that while the cartoonish Santa is mostly made-up, there is actually a lot more historical fact behind the Santa story than most people realize. But first, my interview from 2002 with music journalist Jody Rosen, whose book White Christmas tells the story behind the song first made popular in 1942 by Bing Crosby and which is now one of the world's favorite holiday tunes.