{"id":2274,"date":"2013-08-28T21:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=2274"},"modified":"2013-09-04T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:45:50","slug":"book-recommendation-by-wiley-g-barnett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/mailing-list\/august-2013-newsletter\/book-recommendation-by-wiley-g-barnett\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendation by Wiley G. Barnett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2279\" alt=\"the-black-count\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/08\/the-black-count.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>I have had an experience too amazing not to share! During this past festival we were treated to two truly admirable and important African leaders from the Caribbean: Tousaint L&#8217;ouverture and Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. And now a book has been written about a third such personage &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas<\/span>. All three were born in the Caribbean of African mothers who were enslaved; both St. Georges and Dumas became generals in the French revolutionary army, and L&#8217;Ouverture became general of the victorious Haitian revolution. And one by one all three were crushed by Napoleon&#8217;s race hatred and jealousy. In fact Napoleon did everything he could to have these heroes memories erased from history.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Reiss&#8217; book on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Alexandre Dumas<\/span> is called\u00a0<b><i>The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo<\/i><\/b>. It is amazing! See the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/16\/books\/review\/the-black-count-by-tom-reiss.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">review by Leo Damrosch<\/a>\u00a0in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>On August 14, 2013, <b><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Black Count<\/span><\/i><\/b> was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/citation\/2013-Biography-or-Autobiography\">2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/awards-and-prizes\/article\/58713-pen-announces-2013-award-winners.html\">2013 Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography by the PEN Literary Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an experience too amazing not to share! During this past festival we were treated to two truly admirable and important African leaders from the Caribbean: Tousaint L&#8217;ouverture and Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. And now a book has been written about a third such personage &#8211; General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. All three were born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2259,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2274\/revisions\/2311"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}