http://www.radio4all.net/program/64681Podcast for Program: Tom Reiss-The Black CountThu, 29 Nov 2012 11:43:51 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/64681Alexander Dumas, the novelist who gave the world "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo", based some of the books on his own swashbuckling father. Like d'Artagnan, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas fought three successful duels in a single day. He was a Count, who discovered treasure and was wrongly imprisoned for years. Author Tom Reiss has found new documents, in a safe he had to crack open, which shed new light on this amazing man. The real-life story becomes all the more amazing because Dumas was born to a black slave and a white French aristocrat fugitive in what would become Haiti. Reiss calls his biography, "The Black Count".BookitsThu, 29 Nov 2012 11:43:51 +0000