
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION "For half a century, Ishmael Reed has been American literature's most fearless satirist." --The New Yorker Reed's classic, sharp and characteristically funny story of the Civil War, now with a new foreword by the author...

'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times


Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with "a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twain", (Saturday Review), this slave's-eye view of the Civil War exposes America's racial foibles of the past and present with uninhibited humor and panache...

