I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John…

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

— Poppy Z. Brite

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves,…

— Stephan Pastis

Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a…

— Jill Ciment

The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike…

— Donald Harington

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed upon many…

— Burke Davis

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate…

— Ron Chernow

The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy…

— Michael Hastings

“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about…

— Tony Horwitz

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

— Jonathan Swift

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

— Chesty Puller

If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the flag and…

— Killer Mike

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and…

— John Stuart Mill

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for…

— Robert Toombs

Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people…

— Chuck Klosterman