Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854175383
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
The Idea of a Patriot King, 1749
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854175383
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties, at the Accession of King George the First..
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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.
Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism: on the idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the accession of King George I. By H. St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
Author: Letters on the Spirit of Patriotisme on the Idea of a Patriot King, and of the State of Parties
Author: BolingbrokeThe Idea of a Patriot King
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Pocket Book of Patriotism
Author: Jonathan ForemanPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402729904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive timeline of American and world history with facts and quotes, contributions to science and the arts, wars and military conflicts, and popular culture, and includes a collection of patriotic poems, speeches, and song lyrics.
A Patriot's History of the United States
Author: Larry SchweikartPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101217782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1373
Book Description
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
The Royalist Revolution
Author: Eric NelsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067473534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize, Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey Finalist, George Washington Prize A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015 Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our “founding fathers” saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal power—driven by the conviction that the Lords and Commons had usurped the just prerogatives of the monarch. “The Royalist Revolution is a thought-provoking book, and Nelson is to be commended for reviving discussion of the complex ideology of the American Revolution. He reminds us that there was a spectrum of opinion even among the most ardent patriots and a deep British influence on the political institutions of the new country.” —Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Wall Street Journal “A scrupulous archaeology of American revolutionary thought.” —Thomas Meaney, The Nation “A powerful double-barrelled challenge to historiographical orthodoxy.” —Colin Kidd, London Review of Books “[A] brilliant and provocative analysis of the American Revolution.” —John Brewer, New York Review of Books
The Patriot King; and an Essay on the Spirit of Patriotism. ... By Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Incorporated with Such Observations as May Render His Lordship's Principles and Precepts Subservient to Practical Use at this ... Crisis of Reform; Including a Dissertation on the English Constitution. By a Reformed Whig. To which is Prefixed, a Brief Biography of Bolingbroke
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description