Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilzation, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of America's pre-eminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.

"A great writer." - JAMES BALDWIN

ISHMAEL REED, a novelist, poet, essayist and activist, is the author of more than a dozen books. He has taught at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth and the University of California at Berkeley.

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