Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution his focus is classics and military history. He is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, and a visiting professor in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. He has won many other prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book of the Year. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III will reverse this maligned monarch’s reputation, showing that 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.Īndrew Roberts is the bestselling author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny Leadership in War The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble and Napoleon: A Life, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and a finalist for the Plutarch Award. The result is the first biography of King George III in fifty years, and the definitive one for our generation. Roberts, an award-winning investigative historian ( Churchill, Napoleon), had unprecedented access to these archives. But in 2017, the Queen of England put 200,000 pages of the Georgian kings’ private papers online, about half of which related to George III, and these papers have forced a full-scale reinterpretation of the king’s life and reign. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon: a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities (picture the preening, spitting, and pompous version in Hamilton). The discussion is hosted by Hoover Senior Fellow, Victor Davis Hanson. Please join the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict for a talk with Andrew Roberts, author of The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. The Hoover Institution hosts The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PT in Hauck Auditorium, at the Hoover Institution.
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