“A practiced hand at thoroughly detailed histories and biographies, Roberts keeps the lengthy text vivid and engaging. An eye-opening portrait of the man and his times.” A capacious, prodigiously researched biography from a top-shelf historian.” 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.

“A compendious product of intricate investigation. His superb concluding chapter is a paean to 'the nobility of George III.'” 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. “In Andrew Roberts, George has found his Boswell, but one with the wit and erudition of a Johnson. Roberts provides in The Last King of America-drawing on a vast trove of documents newly digitized by the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle-bring into clear view the man at the center of it all, whose personality, principles and proper reputation have been too long obscured.” “The deft portraits and detailed episodes Mr.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and The Times (UK) Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon-a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating-and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy.

The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon

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