Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Title: Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Author: Tom Reiss ISBN: 9780307382467 Publisher: Crown Published: 2012 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Q 1640188 Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 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 Rev