Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Memoirs of the Reign of King George II
Author: Horace WalpoleMemoirs of the Reign of King George II
Author: Horace WalpoleMemoirs of the Reign of King George the Second
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Some Materials Towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II
Author: John Hervey HerveyMemoirs of the Reign of King George the Second
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3).
Author: Horace WalpoleMemoirs of the Reign of King George the Second
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Last King of America
Author: Andrew RobertsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon 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. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. 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. 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. 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. 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.
King George III
Author: John BrookePublisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9780586039441
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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