The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America (Beacon Press, March 3, 2020). It’s about the prophet Noble Drew Ali, founder of the Moorish Science Temple, predecessor of the Nation of Islam,” and his adventures on Broadway, in the circus, playing jazz in Chicago, healing in the Harlem Renaissance, and wheeling and dealing in Chicago’s murderous machine politics. His wife was also born in the Cincinnati area and was a lion tamer, snake dancer, and conjure woman. None of this information has come to light until now.