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Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Broadway
May 2013
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Featuring: Alex Dumas
432 pages
ISBN: 0307382478
EAN: 9780307382474
Kindle: B007OLYPA4
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Non-Fiction Biography
SLAVE. SOLDIER. LIBERATOR. HERO.
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. 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." It is also a heartbreaking story of the
enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
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