Peter Robinson: A couple of opening questions, if I might. Roberts is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including "Napoleon: a Life," "Churchill: Walking With Destiny," and now "The Last King of America: "the Misunderstood Reign of George III." Andrew, welcome.Īndrew Roberts: Thank you very much, Peter.
A graduate of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, the historian Andrew Roberts is a professor at King's College, London, a lecturer at the New York Historical Society, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution here at Stanford. My colleague at the Hoover Institution, Victor Davis Hanson calls the author of this book, "The most accomplished historical biographer "in the English-speaking world." With us today that author, historian Andrew Roberts, author of "The Last King of America" on "Uncommon Knowledge" now. Peter Robinson: "The Last King of America: "the Misunderstood Reign of George III." In naming this the book of the year, "The Times" of London called the volume magisterial.
Roberts also explains in great detail the dynamics between the British parliament and the nascent American government, including a fascinating account of the writing of and subsequent British reaction to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In this interview and in his book, Roberts goes to great lengths to deconstruct that distortion and, in the process, give us an extremely nuanced and detailed portrait of the man who created the conditions for America’s independence. Roberts’s new book is The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, a biography of the monarch who led England during the American Revolution and who has been made into something of a caricature by Americans, most recently by his portrayal in the musical Hamilton as a preening, stuck-up (but funny) king of England.
In his long and distinguished career, British historian Andrew Roberts has produced world-class biographies of Winston Churchill, and Napoleon, several histories of World War II and the men who led the countries who fought that war, and other great conflicts in world history. Articles The Last King Of America: Andrew Roberts On King George III
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