The Last King Of America: The Misunderstood Reign Of George III

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Hauck Auditorium | Hoover Institution, Stanford University
The Hoover Institution hosted "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.
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 discussion was hosted by Hoover Senior Fellow, Victor Davis Hanson. Please RSVP by November 29, 2021.
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). 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. Roberts, an award-winning investigative historian (Churchill, Napoleon), had unprecedented access to these archives. The result is the first biography of King George III in fifty years, and the definitive one for our generation. 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew 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. He has won many other prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book of the Year. 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.
HOSTED BY
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history. Hanson was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992-93), a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991-92), the annual Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Visiting Fellow in History at Hillsdale College (2004-), the Visiting Shifron Professor of Military History at the US Naval Academy (2002-3),and the William Simon Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University (2010).

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@ccreasman 2 жыл бұрын

As a College History Professor who teaches US history, I have made this argument for 20 years to the great shock of most of my students. I actually had one come to my office in tears because he thought I had undermined the story that his grandfather had told him. I will look so forward to reading this book to further bolster my argument. My only disagreement with the speaker’s remarks is that I don’t think one can necessarily say that the Americans should have obviously been independent. Benjamin Franklin’s long-held idea of a Commonwealth, which obviously became the case in the 19th century, showed at least one way forward. Thank you Hoover Institution for sharing this talk!

@jaysphilosophy1951 2 жыл бұрын

I've always loved these kinds of historical talks I wish I could've been there. So interesting!

@fearthesquirrels9428 2 жыл бұрын

You know you've arrived when Victor Davis Hanson introduces you

@timothyh7053 2 жыл бұрын

VDH is the only intro I will not skip over. If he is giving your intro...I'm listening.

@Hutchie2112 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr Roberts. That was a fascinating talk, and really highlighted, in brief, what a misunderstood and maligned king George III was.

@ajax9433 2 жыл бұрын

I wish this was taught in earlier education. It would've benefited me immensely to have learned how nothing is as simple as it was delivered then. When I was taught the revolutionary birth of America the monarchs of Britain were depicted as a long line of crazed and dictatorial madmen that the British subject chose or were coerced to follow. Its cliche to say but it hears repeating that nothing is that simple.

@waxer32123 2 жыл бұрын

Obviously he knows much more than I do, but I’ve always read the declaration to be an indictment of the monarchy as a whole (as in the king as well as the ones that came before him) not just specifically George III

@brianmoran1196 2 жыл бұрын

My two favourite Historians

@surfstrat59 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting talk. Much I did not know. I’m afraid that KG 3 is never going to get a fair chance at rehabilitation in the U.S.

@johnwade1095 2 жыл бұрын

Independence was inevitable. The Boston Port act was just a catalyst. Tax rate could have been zero, in the end, people want to givern themselves.

@Lz-cy5gx 2 жыл бұрын

They never had before in history.

@dmonarredmonarre3076 2 жыл бұрын

Vdh+roberts=legendary exchange

@busby777 2 жыл бұрын

actually, the colonists would have accepted the taxes if England had not taken away their currency and demanded payment of the taxes in British coin, which was scarce in the colonies

@michaelo.1320 2 жыл бұрын

ACKSHUALLY

@jenniferleason1322 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this excellent podcast. Very educational.

@thattimestampguy 2 жыл бұрын

5:07 It's an honor 5:31 Robert's wife 6:27 3 Things about King George 7:18 Not True, actually 8:00 He was a Manic Depressive King 9:11 18th Century Tyrants were Cruel Despots, George III was not a Cruel Despot, therefore, not a Tyrant - Ends lives aggressively George III only sent an army to Boston, 1 city 10:20 Declaration of Independence 'No, you are a tyrant' 12:25 Stamp Act 2.5 Million people need to pay a total of 40,000-60,000 pounds 14:33 George III never held slaves and argued against slavery 15:34 Rebuking Thomas Paine's _Common Sense_ pamphlet King George III was highly cultural, an avid reader, musician, enlightened 18:27 First British King to be born and educated in Britain in a long time (many British Kings were German in those decades) 19:34 Agricultural Knowledge 20:20 The Burial of his Father; 21:06 The Love of his wife and children (died after 44 Years) 21:59 Self-Righteous King George III, did not wrong Hanoverian, not a funny man, even when he tried 24:40 Manic Depression and Poor-Doctor's Assistance 26:43 The Germain Plan 30:00 June 1785, extends friendship to the United States, showed praise for George Washington 31:53 Strong Duty, Work-Ethic Expecting an 18th century document to reflect 21st century viewpoint is 35:37 *American Exceptionalism* Taking Sovereignty from someone who was _not_ a Tyrant *Question and Answer* 36:42 Massachusetts ingratitude

@dalekleven777 2 жыл бұрын

Amazingly interesting, insightful, clever, and funny. Too bad the audience didn't notice.

@ag7075 2 жыл бұрын

A delight. Thank you.

@hlsailorhlsailor9838 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and entertaining lecture. I am looking forward to your interview with Peter Robinson.

@theogoldberg8919 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you .

@DanHowardMtl 2 жыл бұрын

That was very enlightening. Thanks!

@MrRar66 2 жыл бұрын

32:20 I'm glad the speech included this comment

@rodney_courtney 2 жыл бұрын

Fabulous.

@lostcauselancer333 2 жыл бұрын

Napoleon was one thing, but this is too much. In all seriousness, I can’t wait to read this book.

@prestonmartinez3664 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that 1619 project is bankrupt.

@JM-ig4ed 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.

@takashichusa 2 жыл бұрын

No questions about the Regency period under his son.

@EricM_001 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for this interesting and enlightening presentation. Regrettable to see the audience members and helpers embarrassing themselves and the human race with their ludicrous face diapers.