Nonfiction Book Discussion - "The Black Count" by Tom Reiss

Class & Event Types:

Books & More

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will open on September 23, 2025 @ 2:00pm.
  • A library card is not required.

Program Description

Event Details

Please pick up a copy of the book at the hosting branch.

Copies are available starting one month prior to the discussion, while supplies last.

General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

But, hidden behind General Dumas’s swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time.

Search for the ebook and/or eaudiobook HERE.

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Accommodations

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