Though Roberts occasionally forgoes nuance in favor of salvaging his subject’s reputation, this is an eye-opening portrait of the man and his times. Roberts blames policy mistakes such as the repeal of the Stamp Act on parliament’s factious politics contrasts George’s “staunchly conservative” economic views with those of Prime Minister William Pitt, who oversaw “millions spent on an ever expanding theatre of conflict” and alleges that the king suffered from “recurrent manic-depressive psychosis,” rather than a hereditary blood disorder, as was commonly believed. In Roberts’s view, George III was a loving husband and father, a champion of the Enlightenment, and a constitutional monarchist who ruled in a tumultuous era when America was reaching “political maturity” and Britain’s victory in the Seven Years’ War brought uncertainty about how the empire would be run and who would pay for it. Britain’s most misunderstood monarch he may have been, but this biographer has entered into this conscientious king’s troubled mind with more than customary empathy. It convincingly portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. In Andrew Roberts, George has found his Boswell, but one with the wit and erudition of a Johnson. Historian Roberts ( Churchill: Walking with Destiny) paints the British monarch, who ruled from 1760 until his death in 1820, as “well-meaning, hard-working, decent, dutiful, moral, cultured and kind,” the near-polar opposite of the “wicked tyrannical brute” described by Thomas Paine and other American patriots. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence. Andrew Robertss magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC.“The American Revolution is a testament not to George III’s tyranny, which was fictitious, but to Americans’ yearning for autonomy,” according to this meticulously researched revisionist biography. Roberts argues that, far from being a tyrant or incompetent, George III was one of our most admirable monarchs. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. And it makes a credible, modern diagnosis of Georges terrible malady that robbed him of his mind for the last 10 years of his life - his other main claim to the popular imagination. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated.

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