Download or read book All on a Mardi Gras Day written by Reid MITCHELL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Reid Mitchell takes the reader to Mardi Gras - a yearly ritual that sweeps the multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast.