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diana7011 's review for:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 2013 along with a multiple other accolades well deserved. It's apparently clear that Tom Reiss did a deep dive into researching his subject and the biography was thorough from his youth until his untimely death at the age of 43. There is plenty of history in this work and some of it quite shocking to tell the truth. Napoleon was a tyrant and no better than the monarchs he replaced as history shows him and following Alex Dumas around in all the battles he was involved in it's clear that Dumas was a willing participant. So I came away with the feeling of not being very fond of the subject of this work but admittingly aware that this novel is honest and deserves a five star to the author for writing the Count's story.