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THE BLACK COUNT
By: Tom Reiss
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
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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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.
 Media BuzzTavis Smiley - July 10, 2013
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