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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count...

Es sollte ein Leben voller Spannungen und unerwarteter Wendungen werden, das den sensiblen jüdischen Jungen Lev Nussimbaum bis ins Berlin der Wilden Zwanziger Jahre führte...

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Who was the real Count of Monte Cristo? In this extraordinary biography, Tom Reiss traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father. Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantation slave, General Alexandre Dumas did not have an auspicious start in life.

The epic, untold story of how some of the biggest names on Broadway and in Hollywood fought fascism, opened America's eyes to the Holocaust, and forced the government to take action—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Black Count In September 1941, a screenwriter sat in the bar of...

Astonishing. Searingly honest with plenty of drama, it is the true story of a young life that promised much and delivered more that could ever have been envisaged until the bottom fell out of the author's world. From the realms of high finance and a chance encounter with the president to the comedic pathos of the participation in a football tournament as an inpatient of a psychiatric facility.

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...