Roberts’s new book is The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, a biography of the ... most recently by his portrayal in the musical Hamilton as a preening, stuck-up ...

King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.

Alexander Hamilton, on the other hand ... might well have remained a Virginia farmer if the policies of King George III of England had not intervened. Born on February 22, 1732, to Augustine ...