The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

July 3, 2015 – Segment 5

We talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tom Reiss about his book The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. Reiss’s book is the biography of General Alex Dumas, father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, who is famous for his novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

Written by Marc Steiner

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