King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would
become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and
loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous
tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both of
which have been portrayed on stage and screen. In this concise and
penetrating biography, Jeremy Black turns away from the
image-making and back to the archives, and instead locates George's
life within his age: as a king who faced the loss of key colonies,
rebellion in Ireland, insurrection in London, constitutional crisis
in Britain and an existential threat from Revolutionary France as
part of modern Britain's longest period of war. Black shows how
George III rose to these challenges with fortitude and helped
settle parliamentary monarchy as an effective governmental system,
eventually becoming the most popular monarch for well over a
century. He also shows us a talented and curious individual,
committed to music, art, architecture and science, who took the
duties of monarchy seriously, from reviewing death penalties to
trying to control his often wayward children even as his own mental
health failed, and became Britain's longest reigning king.
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