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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307382474)
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xWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY - ONE OF ESQUIRE'S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar--because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave--who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution--until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world's first multi-racial society. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
Author: Tom Reiss
ISBN-10: 0307382478
ISBN-13: 9780307382474
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 05/31/2013 pg. 103
New York Times Book Review 06/09/2013 pg. 32
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar--because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave--who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution--until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world's first multi-racial society. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
Author: Tom Reiss
ISBN-10: 0307382478
ISBN-13: 9780307382474
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 05/31/2013 pg. 103
New York Times Book Review 06/09/2013 pg. 32
By Tom Reiss
xTOM REISS is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Black Count and the author of the celebrated international bestseller The Orientalist. His biographical pieces have appeared The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications. He makes his home in New York City.
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