Interview: Tom Reiss talks Alexandre Dumas and 'The Black Count' on the NPR

Tom Reiss talks 'The Black Count' and about Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French noble and a black Haitian, who fought his way to fame in the wars of the French Revolution, only to fall victim to a jealous Napoleon and his slaveholding supporters on the NPR.

Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo