{"product_id":"the-black-count-tom-reiss-9780099575139","title":"The Black Count","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize 2013. Reiss, like the novelist Dumas before him, triumphantly resurrects a lost hero - General Alexandre Dumas, the real count of Monte Cristo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e'Completely absorbing' \n\u003cbr\u003eAmanda Foreman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Enthralling' \n\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course\n\u003cbr\u003eare fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for\n\u003cbr\u003ethe swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas's own father, Alex - the son\n\u003cbr\u003eof a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private\n\u003cbr\u003ein the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up\n\u003cbr\u003eamong slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was the\n\u003cbr\u003estuff of legend' \n\u003cbr\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are\n\u003cbr\u003ethere no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops called him? The\n\u003cbr\u003eBlack Count uncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in\n\u003cbr\u003eDumas's downfall. By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to\n\u003cbr\u003ethe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss, like the novelist\n\u003cbr\u003ebefore him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Entrances from first to last. Dumas the novelist would be proud'\n\u003cbr\u003eIndependent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Brilliant' Glasgow Herald\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Reiss","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175895597299,"sku":"9780099575139","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780099575139.jpg?v=1662078759","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-black-count-tom-reiss-9780099575139","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}