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 War buffs and football fans alike.
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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 War buffs and football fans alike.
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Fine in Good jacket. First edition. Fine in good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has chips missing along top. Creased along edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed by author Lawrence Wells on the half title page and inscribed to Renaissance scholar Arthur F. Kinney. Arthur F. Kinney's ownership plate is glued inside the front cover. First edition, first printing. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the top edge of the pages is lightly foxed. Binding is sturdy, if off-square. Dust jacket shows some light wear around the edges.
Imagine a football game played between the best players from the North and South in 1896 with Pop Warner coaching the South and Alonzo Stagg the North. Add to the mix Generals James Longstreet and Daniel Sickles; a young W.E.B. DuBois; a small group of talented black players who have been brought there by their coach-a white woman- to play for the South (they are from Kentucky, after all); plus, two fired-up mobs of aging Confederate and Union veterans who have come to watch the game or re-fight the war, whatever comes first. What you have is a delightful treat for football fanatics and unreconstructed southerners alike. It someone doesn't make this into a feature film than there is no justice. Southron