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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The Black Count Glory Revolution Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Author:Tom Reiss 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&... more »nbsp;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.« less
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