{"product_id":"the-black-count-tom-reiss","title":"The Black Count (Tom Reiss)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Completely absorbing' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmanda Foreman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Enthralling' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/i\u003e! \u003ci\u003eThe Count of Monte Cristo\u003c\/i\u003e! The stories of course\u003cbr\u003eare fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for\u003cbr\u003ethe swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas's own father, Alex - the son\u003cbr\u003eof a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private\u003cbr\u003ein the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up\u003cbr\u003eamong slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was the\u003cbr\u003estuff of legend' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are\u003cbr\u003ethere no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops called him? \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eBlack Count \u003c\/i\u003euncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in\u003cbr\u003eDumas's downfall. By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to\u003cbr\u003ethe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss, like the novelist\u003cbr\u003ebefore him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Entrances from first to last. Dumas the novelist would be proud'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant' \u003ci\u003eGlasgow Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBorn in 1964, Tom Reiss is an American author and journalist who lives in New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Orientalist\u003c\/i\u003e, an acclaimed biography of Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurban Said) which was shortlisted for the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Count\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2013.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 432 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807713403229,"sku":"K077232013","price":14.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7723201300001A.jpg?v=1788485346","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-black-count-tom-reiss","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}