{"id":25458,"date":"2012-09-18T02:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25458"},"modified":"2012-09-18T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T02:24:09","slug":"the-black-count-a-hero-on-the-field-and-the-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25458","title":{"rendered":"‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Weekend Edition Saturday<\/a>
\n National Public Radio<\/a>
\n2012-09-15<\/p>\n

Scott Simon<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

Tom Reiss<\/a><\/strong>, Author<\/p>\n

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo<\/a>.<\/em> By\u00a0Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the French Revolution<\/a> \u2014 but you won’t find a statue of him in Paris today.<\/p>\n

He led armies of thousands in triumph through treacherous territory, from the snows of the Alps to the sands of Egypt, and his true life stories inspired his son, Alexandre Dumas<\/a>, to write The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/em> and The Three Musketeers<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

How did the son of a Haitian slave and a French nobleman become Napoleon’s<\/a> leading swordsman of the Revolution<\/strong>, then a prisoner, and finally almost forgotten \u2014 except in the stories of a son who was not even 4 years old when his father died?<\/p>\n

“I like to think of him as history’s ultimate underdog,” says author Tom Reiss. His new book, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/em>, uncovers the real life that inspired so many fictional heroes.<\/p>\n

“He’s a black man, born into slavery, and then he rises higher than any black man rose in a white society before our own time,” Reiss tells NPR’s Scott Simon. “He became a four-star general and challenges Napoleon, and he did it all 200 years ago, at the height of slavery.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>. Listen to the interview (00:06:56) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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