pickA well written and researched book on the life and times is Alex Dumas. There is a lot of history in here.
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | 
pickA well written and researched book on the life and times is Alex Dumas. There is a lot of history in here.
@iread2much I‘ve been looking forward to reading one of your favorite books for quite some time now. Thank you for this gift and for being a wonderful friend!
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But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals conducting passionate nonstop shouting matches in the former royal riding school of the Tuileries palace.
This biography of Alex Dumas, the father of Alexandre Dumas, is anything but dry history. Reading about the son of a black slave who rises to prominence in the late eighteenth century is already engaging, and Reiss tells the story with a contemporary flair. Dumas‘s “new digs” are behind the Louvre and then there‘s this great beginning to a sentence: “Sexual adventure was trendy in 1784.”
pickWe‘ve had so much fun these past few days but we‘re both tuckered out lol 😂 it‘s a good kind of tired
Book haul from Goodwill after I dropped off donations there! I‘ve been wanting to read the bio of Alex Dumas (the Black Count) for a long time!! But right now am reading thru the grilling cookbook for new ideas (such a 1990s cover 😂) — we recently got a grill/smoker.
Read this one again and liked it just as much as on the first reading. 😊
Today you get a bonus #Recommendsday. Not a black author, so it won‘t count for the #BlackPublishingPower
This nonfiction book is about the man behind the Count of Monte Cristo, General Alex Dumas. Did you know Alexander Dumas‘s father was a famous general AND the son of a black slave who rose to become a famous general and who was the inspiration for many of his son‘s swashbuckling adventures novels.
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Day 3 of 7: Books that made a lasting impression on me
This is the fascinating story of the father of author Alexandre Dumas, and it is the book that taught me to love audiobooks. I appreciate learning all kinds of history but seldom make time to read nonfiction in print. However, as I learned with this book, I generally enjoy listening to nonfiction better than fiction.
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pickI have the hard copy of this book but decided to listen to audio. Super dense. I learned so much about the French Revolution. Def will read again. Oh yea, Napoleon was a HATERRRRRRR.
pick4/5⭐ I'm not fully sure when I finished this considering it started over on me for some reason after the ending, but I must have enjoyed it since I just now realized after 60 minutes i to ch 1 that it sounded awful familiar. I skipped to the last chapter and was like yup it started over. I highly recommend reading/listening to The Black Count. He was an incredible young man and went from nothing to being the highest in command in the French Army.
A great book on sale today, if you liked The Count of Monte Cristo, this is a non-fiction book you will probably really enjoy.
On the train this morning, some condescending dummy looked at the cover of my book, looked at me, and sneered, “Isn‘t it a little early to be reading romance?” First of all, never speak. Second of all, it feels like you were trying to be racist? Third of all, I am tired of the romance genre being made a punchline by smug jerks who don‘t read. And finally fourth, ITS NOT EVEN A ROMANCE BOOK, YA LAZY DUMMY. #morningrant
If it was good enough for Alexander Dumas‘ Dad, it should have been good enough for Rickon welcome to my Ted Talk.
Another great acknowledgement! 😉
pickWhether you are interested in the life of author Alexander Dumas and his father, or the French Revolution and Napoleon‘s rise to power, or the complex role of race and slavery during that time period, or events in the life of Dumas‘s father the General that were recast in his novels...this is the book for you! So very interesting on multiple levels!
Thanks for the recommendation @TheNextBook
Always beware of attacks on the free press... it‘s been a standard play since Napoleon.
It really is amazing to think about, in the middle of The Terror and guillotine madness, there was also this amazing thing happing simultaneously... that got a lot less attention.
That‘s sounds really familiar.... I‘m so glad I re-read The Count of Monte Cristo first, these true stories behind some of the fictional ones are fascinating.
Note to self: when coming upon The Time Machine, Tardis, Bill & Ted‘s Phonebooth, or a DeLorean...do NOT visit this time and place!
😂🤦♀️😂. I‘m going to have to remember that one!
Well, at least he was planning for success...sheesh! 😂
Damn! 🤯
Can you even imagine... the long chain of office email (now texts), but all hand written and delivered by horse through the swamp!
I like this one so much I have multiple formats. Fascinating account of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and how his life inspired his son, Alexandre Dumas, to write The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Learning things can be fun 😉
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Commodities speculation....ruining the economy.... that sounds oddly familiar. Maybe those bankers in The Big Short should be even happier they got bailed out instead of 😵☠️
Or as Mortica Adams would say, ‘no one knows how to throw a good riot anymore‘ Cue evil laughter here.
I love this description, in many ways we‘ve never even come close to this kind of equity again...and isn‘t that just the saddest statement about prejudice and how we perceive qualities by appearance even in these “modern” times.🧐
Loving this book, such a good one after reading The Count of Monte Cristo last month. It makes me want to read the rest of Dumas‘s back catalog!
That is fascinating, the free blacks on the islands who had access to theater, opera, etc at one point in history, incorporated that into their religious practices that were passed down on the island.
Really an amazing part of history, that I didn‘t know a lot about before.
Such a great opening to this book, so glad you recommended it to me @TheNextBook the parallels with his father‘s life in the son‘s novels is really interesting, the rest makes it amazing. Sad this brief period didn‘t last and Dumas the writer saw racism spread in his lifetime.
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pickI learned so much about the French Revolution and one of its top generals by reading this book. It‘s a fascinating read that‘s almost as gripping as one of his son‘s novels. Alexandre Dumas Jr. couldn‘t have asked for better inspiration than his larger-than-life father.
🎶 “I helped Lafayette draft a declaration
Then I said I gotta go.” 🎶
pickWell, I just finished this book and I am highly recommending it. It is the story of General Dumas who was the son of a white man and enslaved Black woman who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the 18th century France. This book is filled with history as it changes throughout the life of Dumas. Thoroughly researched and excellently told. I am so happy I learned of this man and his extroardinary life. Reading his sons book next! #bookpairings
Litsy was a mess yesterday but that‘s when I started this and it is good. It‘s dense. There is a ton of history laced throughout the story of Alexander Dumas‘s father but really interesting stuff here
I know it‘s Independent Bookstore Day, but I couldn‘t bring myself to fight the traffic to get to mine. Instead, I used my 15% off entire purchase coupon at the B&N 10 minutes from my house. I *may* have gone overboard, but #NortonCriticalEditions 😍😍. I have an urge to give Wuthering Heights another try, and I cannot resist a #NCE. Plus, Alexandre Dumas is one of my favs. The tagged book is a biography of his father!
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My #bookpairing for May! The inspiration for Alexander Dumas‘s The Count of Monte Cristo was his Black father so I‘m pairing these two stories! Will be reading mid May!
Day 22 of the @bookriot #Riotgrams Challenge: book that should be adapted! I‘ll settle for a film, but this should really be Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s next musical. ♥️
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My February TBR pile ❤️ Super excited and hope to finish all these this month 📚📚📚
pickThis biography of General Alex Dumas the all-but-forgotten father of Alexandre Dumas achieves a remarkable number of things. It reveals the links between Alex's life and the Count of Monte Cristo, it recreates the life of a remarkable man whose significant role in the French Revolution had been virtually lost and, most importantly, it traces the inconsistent treatment of people of colour during the revolutionary period 👇
I suppose Mondays aren't ALL bad...
Amazing. The rise of an elite mixed-race class on Sant Domingue in the 17C caused a cultural blending that means modern Haitian Voodoo practices are influenced by European Commedia dell'arte traditions.
