![]() … Roberts’s fundamentally humane approach to his biographical subjects … treats George III with as much respect and compassion when sick, blind and deaf as when powerful at the promising start of his reign. Roberts provides a fresh and spirited account of both occurrences. ‘Magisterial … George III is notorious for two reasons: losing America and going mad. George III is often portrayed as a wicked tyrant, but a historian insists the myths are wrong | Daily Mail Online … His demolition of the authors of the Declaration’s case against George III is elegant and comprehensive.’ ‘Andrew Roberts is our most prodigious biographer. George III by Andrew Roberts book review – The TLS (.uk) Jonathan Clark, Times Literary Supplement … 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.’ ‘Such is Roberts’s persuasive interpretation, supported by a wide range of sources and argued with keen insight into political realities. ‘This mammoth, elegant and splendidly researched biography’ ![]() And, 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.’ ![]() ![]() ‘It is … richly evidenced and scrupulously argued. ![]()
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