Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers

Highly provocative. —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. –Werner Sollers, Harvard University

Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he’ll open another page of American history and show you something new. –David Homel, Rover Arts

Reed’s prose style resembles the youthful Ali’s ring style. –New York Times Book Review

There is brutal candour in Reed’s argument, which often feels refreshing in light of the euphemisms and platitudes typically expressed in both polite discourse and the media’s self-scrutiny . . . Whether or not one agrees with Reed, one can only be entertained by his gleeful barbs and edgy turns-of-phrase. He names names and shames with derision. –Montreal Review of Books

“Among American writers, Ishmael Reed is probably the one whose sensibility is closest to jazz.” —New York Times

“The brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain.” —Nation