This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Mueller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

Andrew Roberts is one of the most consequential biographers and historians in the English-speaking world today.

A graduate of Cambridge University, Professor Robert serves as the Roger and Martha Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and is also a visiting professor at the

War Studies Department at Kings College in London.

He's known around the world for his best-selling biographies on Napoleon Bonaparte,

Winston Churchill, and his histories on World War II and the Waterloo campaign.

His books not only tell a story but teach us about leadership at some of the most crucial junctures in world history.

His most recent biography, The Last King of America,

the misunderstood reign of George III, is no exception to this rule and that book is the topic of our

conversation today.

Andrew Roberts, welcome to Thinking in Public.

Thank you very much indeed.

It's great to be on the show again.

It is great to have you again and as I will simply repeat my pledge, the next time you write a book will be right in line to talk about that one.

And we've talked about all kinds of things over the years in terms of the course of Western history, the English-speaking peoples, Winston Churchill, and Napoleon.

But now we're talking about George III.

And so I think the obvious question, maybe on both sides of the Atlantic is, why 700 pages on George the third?

Well, because as the subtitle of my book points out, he's a tremendously misunderstood monarch.

He is somebody who for 200 years has been on both sides of the Atlantic denigrated essentially as a monster and a tyrant.

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