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Images in this review. Top reviews from Australia. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Australia. Top reviews from other countries. Verified Purchase. I thoroughly enjoyed this well-written history of King George III, which challenged many of the kong-held assumptions concerning his reign on both sides of the Atlantic, while giving interesting details about the man, his personality, views, and conduct.

For someone with kids and a full time job, I find it difficult to find time to read, although I do at every opportunity. Read this from cover to cover in 4 sittings so really enjoyed it. Although a personal history of George III, the author sheds just enough light on events of the reign such as American independence without seeing off the subject of George too much.

Perfectly balanced, energetically written, full of detail and for quite a long book, very light reading. There won't be a better book on George III. As someone who enjoys reading history but is not an academic historian, this is my sort of book. The writing style is perfect, and I looked forward to sitting down to read it. Not only is Hibbert's scholarship solid, but he also does a wonderful jo of combining all the important elements of the King's life into an entertaining and compelling read.

George III was on the throne for almost 60 years during a period of great social and political upheaval throughout the western world, yet many don't know much about him. Americans especially know little more about him that the tyranical caricature popularized during the American Revolution. The book begins with a chapter about the King's dissolute father whose personality and relationship with his family were remarkably similar to that of George III's own son, the future George IV.

Hibbert establishes George III's own unique personality by examing both his early upbringing and the key political players who helped shape his dedication to duty. George III certainly lacked the flamboyance of both his father and son. In contrast, he was sober and prudish, but nevertheless quite interesting and complex. During his reign he weathered both the American and French Revolutions, long periods of war abroad, and various periods of political unrest at home.

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Must-Reads for Younger Readers. Unmissable Non-Fiction Visit the store. Catch-up with a Classic Visit the store. Next page. Review George, Roberts writes, "more than filled the role of King of Great Britain worthily; he filled it nobly". This book should be read by every American whose interest in history goes beyond the feel-good. I t is challenging, but richly evidenced and scrupulously argued.

Coming after his powerful studies of Halifax, Salisbury, Napoleon and Churchill, it consolidates Roberts's position as one of the greatest biographers in the English language today. A book so diligently researched cannot fail to be rich in curious detail and amusing turns of phrase. There are plums on almost every page. The historical image of the king as a tyrant and a lunatic is not remotely true in the first case a contention Roberts provides much evidence to substantiate and true only for part of his reign in the second.

A handsome and thorough biography This is a compendious product of intricate investigation. Roberts has read everything It is a magnificent achievement. Roberts systematically, cogently and helpfully reinterprets his subject's role and reputation. It must be hoped that Andrew Roberts's important, serious and timely book plays an appropriate role in the rethinking that can now hardly be avoided.

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. The first of the Hanoverians to identify as British was mocked, slandered and vilified during his lifetime and is still regularly cited in the American media as the epitome of tyranny.

Over the past two centuries historians have dismissed him as incompetent and despotic. Andrew Roberts has no time for such ill-founded nonsense. George has found a true champion in Andrew Roberts, who has ridden up gallantly to challenge unfounded prejudice. This impressively researched and scholarly account of the King's life and travails is compulsively readable and, in its tragic end, deeply moving.

It is full of fascinating detail, insightful vignettes and vivid local colour. Or admire him more What makes Roberts's massive biographies so distinctively rewarding is that he provides the reader with enough evidence to undermine his own conclusions. It is based on such astonishingly wide-ranging and original research that I felt I was reading about the period for the first time.

Unknown facts and wonderful anecdotes had me turning the pages with a curiosity I seldom feel when reading about supposedly familiar events. Andrew Roberts is remarkably even-handed, and there is no special pleading on behalf of this genuinely misunderstood and wilfully misrepresented monarch who did his best to be a good constitutional ruler during a very choppy period in British history.

His new biography seeks to challenge popular myths about the monarch. Roberts, employing the same flair for original research and ability to convey historical context and vivid prose that he used in previous books Meticulous and forensic, it sometimes reads like a defense counsel's case for his client See more reviews. Top reviews from other countries.

Translate all reviews to English. A very interesting take on a mis understood King. Cuestiona, parece que acertadamente, el origen de su locura. Report Translate review to English. The author nails the story of this obviously misunderstood King. Of course he had his faults but the American Revolution was unwinnable not least because Americans embraced slavery and feared British intentions on this matter, Americans did not want to pay taxes for services the British had been and were providing them military protection , Americans wanted to expand into First Nations territory the British had promised to those First Nations, and Americans were angered at the British respect for Quebec's French language and Catholic religion.

On all of these the British were on the right side of history but none of that mattered. The United States was ready for statehood and the British failure, and thus by extension the King's and the country's Parliament, was in recognizing that simple fact until it was too late. I bought this because Roberts' biographies of Napoleon and Churchill had been so good - I didn't actually have much interest in reading a massive tome on George III and thought it might be quite dry.

It was actually brilliant - incredibly readable, informative, and I really admire how Roberts keeps his subject in focus at all times, while also sharing the wider context. It inspired me to then go on and read more about early prime ministers, because it was such an important, formative time for modern Britain. What I would say though is it felt like a bit of a polemic at times.

Roberts is writing to rehabilitate George III's reputation for losing American and being a tyrant who didn't always respect the boundaries of constitutional monarchy. He presents the evidence and narrative to make that argument and it's so believable that it pushes the dial the other way. But because he's so good at that, I wasn't sure whether I was getting a balanced view or listening to one side of an argument.

The author truly masters the art of capturing the nuances and subtleties of an Uber-known historical figure recognized by every British reader. For a non-British reader, he walks us through the history, socio-economic landscape and across-class ecosystem to present the figure of a ruler that goes beyond the the well-known nickname. The depths, aspirations, miseries and frustrations of a King in its context, both policial and genealogical, are presented with breath depths and a skillful narrative style.

I truly enjoyed the reading.

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