The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, by Andrew Roberts (Viking, 784 pp., $40) The Declaration of Indepen­dence is an odd document. Or, as Andrew Roberts more pointedly puts ...
In "Common Sense," a literary bombshell that went through 25 printings in 1776 alone, Thomas Paine blasted King George III as "the royal brute of Britain" and "a full-blooded Nero." And the second ...