Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

Name: Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
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ISBN: 9780307382474

ISBN-10: 0307382478

ISBN-13: 9780307382474

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Authors: Tom Reiss

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Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.04" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Tom Reiss is the author of the bestsellers The Orientalist and The Black Count. His biographical pieces have appeared The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications.



Prologue, Part 1 February 26, 1806


Prologue, Part 2 January 25, 2007






The Sugar Factory



The Black Code



Norman Conquest



"No One Is a Slave in France"



Americans in Paris



Black Count in the City of Light



A Queen's Dragoon






Summers of Revolution



"Regeneration by Blood"



"The Black Heart Also Beats for Liberty"



"Mr. Humanity"



The Battle for the Top of the World



The Bottom of the Revolution



The Siege



The Black Devil






Leader of the Expedition



"The Delirium of His Republicanism"



Dreams on Fire



Prisoner of the Holy Faith Army



"Citizeness Dumas … Is Worried About the Fate of Her Husband"



The Dungeon



Wait and Hope


Epilogue: The Forgotten Statue


Acknowledgments


Author's Note on Names


Notes


Bibliography


Index