![]() ![]() 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. 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. As he did in The Orientalist, Tom Reiss has traveled far to stalk a forgotten legend, and has recovered for us a vivid, dramatic tale that delights, moves, and inspires. 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 a complex work of political and social history gallantly masquerading as a fantastic adventure story. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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.īut, 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. ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY ![]()
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