George Iii: A Personal History - Tapa dura

To the English, George III is the King who went mad; to Americans he is the King stigmatised in the Declaration of Independence as 'unfit to be the ruler of a free people'. Discredited as a clumsy tyrant and a villain, ridiculed as Farmer George orMr King - the time has come for a re-assessment of this remarkable man. For all his eccentricities, George was a man of wide sympathies and intelligence, a man capable of flashes of wit and irony who greatly enhanced the reputation of the BritishMonarchy in the 50 years of his reign until, suffering from a virulent form of a metabolic disorder, he lost his reason and disappeared into a world of strange imaginings.

Christopher Hibbert is, in the words of the TES, 'perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have'. His books include THE DESTRUCTION OF LORD RAGLAN (which won the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962); LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CITY and THE VIRGIN QUEEN: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF ELIZABETH I. Christopher Hibbert is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is married with two sons and a daughter and lives in Henley-on-Thames.