Let the Band Play Dixie

by Lawrence Wells

This wonderful, wacky tale of the first "All Star Blue-Gray Football Game" and the picaresque company of prostitutes, ministers, gamblers and dotty Civil War vets it attracts is sure to please Civil... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385234678
• ISBN13: 9780385234672
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Yoknapatawpha Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

YeeeeeHaaaaaa!

I had just finished "Last Full Measure" when I started this book. It was a wonderful, imaginative work that kept me wondering just what the bag limits would be on major issues addressed and historic military, sports and political figures brought into the picture along with the fictitious "father" of sports agents. Hilarious combinations of characters, circumstances and events left me shaking my head in amazement, while I still was made to focus on the real, not- so-funny issues that challenged our society and country in 1896 and still challenge us today. The image of Gens. Longstreet and Sickles laying out a football field on the Gettysburg battlefield is one not easily purged from my mind, sort of like the rest of the book, a combination of the absolutely unthinkable and the "Why not?".

Terrific Fun, pokes fun at everything

What a fun ride through the turn of the century attitudes toward sex roles, race, athletics, and social class. I loved every minute of it. After having read a lot of serious history of the Civil War, I found this to be a welcome change.