Rally Round the Flag Boys by Max Shulman (1957)

Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
by Max Shulman
Publisher:  Doubleday & Company, Inc. 
Copyright:  1957
Book Club Edition

Rally Round the Flag, Boys! is Max Shulman's happiest book.  It's a tonic.  It's a breeze.  It's a joy for readers of all tastes, persuasions, estates, and sexes.

Is it funny?  You bet your sweet life it's funny!  From Shulman you've learned to expect big, loud, laughs, and here you'll get them in wholesale lots.

But you'll get something more -- a wonderful bonus of warmth and wit and truth.  This is a book not only to laugh at, but also to love.  The people are real; the lumps they get could be your own.

Rally Round the Flag, Boys! takes place in a Connecticut commuting village, where discontented country husbands live with their discontented country wives; where old Yankee settlers wish the commuters would vanish in a puff of smoke but mulct them mercilessly until they do; where teenaged disciples of the late James Dean prove you don't have to be underprivileged to be delinquent; where frenzy lies fitfully beneath a rustic patina.

Into this seething caldron a new and highly volatile ingredient is tossed:  the U.S. Army installs a Nike guided missile base, with results that are explosively funny.

Rally Round the Flag, Boys! pokes away with rare humor at a whole range of subjects from guided missiles to misguided marriages, from television surveys to garbage disposal plants, from country music to Little League, from barracks rooms to rumpus rooms.

Here you will find Max Shulman at the top of his powers in a story that adds warmth and wisdom to the humor that has kept America laughing since he burst upon the scene with Barefoot Bay With Cheek thirteen years ago.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover shows really bad wear and tear and discoloration (i.e.: it's seen better days).  Covers are tanning where it's been exposed.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  A couple of pages are dog-eared.

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