Tim Blanning wrote a review of the latest G3 biography for the London Review of Books, which seems looks like it‘s general tone is „G3: Slandered by Americans from Thomas Jefferson to Lin Manuel Miranda“ , „G3: A Much Better Man Than Most Of Your Founding Fathers Put Together“ and, to quote a contemporary (Samuel Johnson), „Taxation No Tyranny (Damn Yankee Tax Dodgers)“.
Ha! Yeah, I'm trying to remember -- I don't think George III was specifically presented as evil or whatever at school, but what I remember from school was what you say, where George kind of was the public face of British Tyranny vs. Our Heroes the Founding Fathers, and so small!me, along with presumably everyone else, drew conclusions from that. (The Britpop thing is all LMM, and I think (?) it's supposed to be hilarious, because that was definitely not in my mental picture before LMM.)
...Of course for my kids, they seem to be getting extremely little history in school at all, so a lot of it they would be getting from places like Hamilton, so, huh, yeah, maybe I need to do some damage control there.
Aaaanyway: wanting independence for yourself while oppressing someone else really is a fine international tradition.
Yeah, fair. Seems like a human condition sort of thing, not to see what's going on there.
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Re: Great Northern War: Johann Patkul
Date: 2021-11-20 06:45 am (UTC)Ha! Yeah, I'm trying to remember -- I don't think George III was specifically presented as evil or whatever at school, but what I remember from school was what you say, where George kind of was the public face of British Tyranny vs. Our Heroes the Founding Fathers, and so small!me, along with presumably everyone else, drew conclusions from that. (The Britpop thing is all LMM, and I think (?) it's supposed to be hilarious, because that was definitely not in my mental picture before LMM.)
...Of course for my kids, they seem to be getting extremely little history in school at all, so a lot of it they would be getting from places like Hamilton, so, huh, yeah, maybe I need to do some damage control there.
Aaaanyway: wanting independence for yourself while oppressing someone else really is a fine international tradition.
Yeah, fair. Seems like a human condition sort of thing, not to see what's going on there.