The Man Who Invented ChristmasBy: Les Standiford As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western worldnow a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end