Table of Contents

Introduction • 1. No Petticoat Government, No Scotch Minister • 2. The Rake on the Make • 3. The Blind Trumpeter, 1770–1782 • 4. You Cannot Conquer America • 5. Kill the Fox • 6. The Bottomless Pitt • 7. The Madness • 8. ‘George Split Farthing’ • 9. Murderous Attacks • 10. The Patron • 11. France and Revolution • 12. The Builder of Genius • 13. God Save the King • 14. The Father Figure • 15. After Pitt • 16. The Final Years

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George III as his contemporaries saw him, through Kenneth Baker's fascinating personal collection of caricatures

About the Author

Kenneth Baker entered the House of Commons in 1968, and in his distinguished political career served as Environment Secretary, Education Secretary and Home Secretary. He now sits in the House of Lords.

Reviews

'A wonderful gathering of images from the bestial to the downright brutal, which shows 18th-century cartooning its savage best' - Independent

'Colourful, irreverent, frequently scatological … a handsome alternative to a conventional biography' - Daily Telegraph