Andrew Roberts on The Last King of America
February 2022Historian and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Andrew Roberts joined the Museum of the American Revolution in February 2022 for a talk on his latest book, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. The Last King of America reexamines King George III and offers a nuanced and fascinating view of a controversial monarch often dismissed as a pompous buffoon or villain. Following the lecture Museum President & CEO Dr. R. Scott Stephenson joined the discussion to host a live Q&A with the live audience.
About Dr. Andrew Roberts
Professor Andrew Roberts read Modern History at Caius College, Cambridge, from where he is a Ph.D. He has written over a dozen books including Salisbury: Victorian Titan (which won the Wolfson Prize), Masters and Commanders (which won the International Churchill Society Book Award), The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (which won the British Army Military Book of the Year Award), Napoleon the Great (which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon and The Los Angeles Times Biography Prize), Churchill: Walking with Destiny (which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize), and George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (which won the General Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award).
Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, the Roger & Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, the Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society, and a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London.
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