The author has a deep knowledge of this era, having previously written the bestselling Napoleon: A Life. 2022 Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award, 2021 Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year. A practiced hand at thoroughly detailed histories and biographies, Roberts keeps the lengthy text vivid and engaging as he untangles the inciting factors of American Revolution and the various Parliamentary conflicts that dogged George III's reign, especially after the Seven Years' War. Buy George III: The Life and Reign of Britains Most Misunderstood Monarch by Roberts, Andrew (ISBN: 9780241413333). This is not the first revisionist treatment of the monarch, who reigned from 1760 until his death in 1820, but Roberts's extensive use of primary-source letters, essays, and other personal documents recently made available by the Georgian Papers Programme offers much fresh evidence that George III was not the arrogant and vindictive tyrant portrayed in popular culture, but rather an intelligent and conscientious king whose idealistic goals were stymied by political frictions and the misfortune of mental illness. George III of England: cold-hearted, cruel, and villainous? Not so, posits historian Roberts (winner of the Wolfson History Prize for Salisbury: Victorian Titan) in his new biography, which while decidedly sympathetic to its subject -sometimes to excess -nevertheless presents a convincing case.
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