{"product_id":"the-black-count-tom-reiss-9780099575139","title":"The Black Count","description":"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013\n‘Completely absorbing’ \nAmanda Foreman\n'Enthralling’ \nGuardian\n‘The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course\nare fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for\nthe swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex - the son\nof a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private\nin the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up\namong slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was the\nstuff of legend’ \nDaily Mail\nSo how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are\nthere no statues of ‘Monsieur Humanity’ as his troops called him? The\nBlack Count uncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in\nDumas’s downfall. By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to\nthe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto – Reiss, like the novelist\nbefore him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.\n‘Entrances from first to last. Dumas the novelist would be proud’\nIndependent\n‘Brilliant’ Glasgow Herald","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676836888864,"sku":"9780099575139","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780099575139.jpg?v=1779263598","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-black-count-tom-reiss-9780099575139","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}