This biography of Alexandre Dumas’s father delivers everything promised in the title and more. Come for the fascinating life of a former slave turned aristocrat turned French Revolution war hero, stay for the equally fascinating (and horrific and depressing) overview of how France sort of managed to...
So the cover picture is quite dashing and despite the fact that I listened to it in audiobook format, Scribd displayed the picture quite prominently on my screen... which resulted in an amusing moment where another person caught a glimpse of it before I could hide the window and I am sure they thoug...
The name Alexandre Dumas is well known, but before the author and his playwright son was the General. Tom Reiss brings the little known founder of the Dumas family into the spotlight in The Black Count, a born slave of noble blood turned Republican general in the service of France. This giant of a...
Besides having an exceedingly long title, I think the time was wrong for me to read this book. Wrapped up in other ideas and too much nonfiction reading on my plate, I had a difficult time getting into this book despite the fact that it is actually quite well written. From the slave-run plantation...
La historia es escrita por los vencedores, de eso no queda duda alguna. Sin negar que los hechos son un tema mucho más complejo que debe condensarse para la posterioridad, hay miles de ejemplos que muestran omisiones, cambios y borrones que dan una idea distinta de lo que ocurrió en realidad. Este...
Fascinating. Just amazing. The story behind the black count is unbelievable. And the story-telling is masterful. Definitely the best history book I've read in a long while.I liked the layers of research in this biography. Certainly lots of French military history around the time of the revoluti...
This is the sort of book that I love to read. Full of history and surprises, I had never given any thought to race in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before. But in this tale of a soldier-aristocrat in revolutionary and Napoleonic France, race certainly matters in the life of Alex...
There are certain figures throughout history who have had a significant impact on key periods in history but remain relatively obscure. General Alex Dumas is one such figure. Not only was he one of the top generals in the post-revolution French Army, ranking even higher than Napoleon Bonaparte at on...
A fascinating read about Alex Dumas, and it makes me want to find the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo to see how much of his life is in the pages.Also, Napoleon, what a dick.
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