Andrew Roberts.
ANDREW ROBERTS: GEORGE III BIOGRAPHY
THE LAST KING OF AMERICA: THE MISUNDERSTOOD REIGN OF GEORGE III (2023)
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Times and the Economist.
Andrew Roberts argues that George III was the villain as he is often portrayed. He suggests that damning image was the product of attacks by 18th century rebels such as Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine who needed to paint him as evil in order to achieve their aims.
Roberts instead makes the case for George III as a wise and humane monarch who suffered from incompetent ministers, disastrous luck, and mental illness.
The Spectator wrote of the book: "A compendious product of intricate investigation. Roberts has read everything. . . . The letters and diaries of delicious characters such as Fanny Burney and Lady Mary Coke are combed for color and detail, and troop movements and economic fluctuations are carefully reconstructed. It is a magnificent achievement."
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Andrew Roberts (born 1963) is a distinguished historian and journalist, who was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer by Boris Johnson. Roberts read history at Caius College, Cambridge, where the chaired the Cambridge University Conservative Association. He worked as an investment banker at Robert Fleming from 1985 to 1988, publishing his first book, a biography of the politician Lord Halifax, in 1991. His many further books focus particularly on politics and war in the 20th century.
