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.d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30.  ’   . . . . . . . . . . .d e v re se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30. This page intentionally left blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30.   K The ing’s Three Faces      , – & . . . . . . . . . . .d e v re se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th giryp Publishedforthe o C OmohundroInstituteofEarlyAmericanHistoryandCulture, Williamsburg,Virginia,bythe UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress, ChapelHill McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30. TheOmohundroInstituteofEarlyAmericanHistoryandCulture issponsoredjointlybytheCollegeofWilliamandMaryandtheColonial WilliamsburgFoundation.OnNovember,,theInstituteadoptedthe presentnameinhonorofabequestfromMalvernH.Omohundro,Jr. ©TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress Allrightsreserved SetinMiniontypebyTsengInformationSystems,Inc. ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData McConville,Brendan,– Theking’sthreefaces:theriseandfallofroyalAmerica,–/BrendanMcConville. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. -:----(cloth:alk.paper) -:---(cloth:alk.paper) .UnitedStates—Politicsandgovernment—To. .UnitedStates—Politicsandgovernment— –. .Monarchy—GreatBritain—Publicopinion—History—thcentury. .Publicopinion— UnitedStates—History—thcentury. .Politicalculture—UnitedStates—History—thcentury. .GreatBritain—Foreignpublicopinion,American—History—thcentury. I.OmohundroInstituteofEarlyAmericanHistory&Culture. II.Title. .  .d evre .—dc se  r sth g Thepaperinthisbookmeetstheguidelinesforpermanenceand ir llA durabilityoftheCommitteeonProductionGuidelinesforBookLongevity .sse oftheCouncilonLibraryResources. rP a nilo Thisvolumereceivedindirectsupportfromanunrestrictedbook raC publicationsgrantawardedtotheInstitutebytheL.J.Skaggsand htro MaryC.SkaggsFoundationofOakland,California. 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BeholdtheManwhohaditinhisPower TomakeaKingdomtrembleandadore IntoxicatewithFolly,seehisHead Plac’dwherethemeanestof hisSubjectstread LikeLuciferthegiddyTyrantfell HeliftshisHeeltoHeavenbutpointshisHeadtoHell. VerseplacedbelowaninvertedprintofGeorgeIII, seenbyJohnAdamsinBaltimorein .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30. This page intentionally left blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30.  Bookprojectstakeanumberofyearstoresearchandwrite,andallwhoengagein theseprojectsowedebtsofthanks.Certainly,thisprojectisnodifferent.Librari- ansandarchivistsattheLibraryofCongress,theNationalArchives,theLibrary CompanyofPhiladelphia,theHistoricalSocietyofPennsylvania,theNew-York HistoricalSociety,theNewYorkPublicLibrary,theNewJerseyHistoricalSo- ciety,theRhodeIslandHistoricalSociety,theMassachusettsHistoricalSociety, theMarylandHistoricalSociety,theHistoricalSocietyofDelaware,theAmeri- canAntiquarianSociety,thelibrariesoftheStateUniversityofNewYork—Bing- hamton, the Houghton and Widener Libraries at Harvard University, Mugar MemorialLibraryofBostonUniversity,theIsaacRoyallHouse(whereIwasvery generouslyassistedbyFredSchlicher),theBostonPublicLibrary,theWinterthur MuseumandLibrary,andtheJohnCarterBrownLibraryofferedassistanceand repeatedlydemonstratedthevirtueofpatience. Someinstitutionsofferedinvaluablefinancialassistanceinthecompletionof thisproject.TheMcNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudiesprovidedmewitha yeartodoresearchinthearchivesofthePhiladelphiaarea.Thedirectorofthe McNeilCenter,DanRichter,notonlyofferedinvaluableadviceandsupportbut .de also read the entire manuscript in an earlier stage, this while directing a cen- vre se terthatgrowsmorelively(andlarger)witheachpassingyear.TheJohnCarter r sthg BrownLibraryandSUNY—Binghamtonalsogenerouslysupportedthisproject, ir llA .sserP alloTwhiengMmcNeetoilhCaevneteard,dtihtieoJnoahlnleCavaertteimr BerfoowrnresLeiabrrcahrya,ntdhewOrimtinogh.undro Insti- a nilo tuteofEarlyAmericanHistoryandCulture’sAnnualConference,theMaryland ra C h SeminarinAmericanHistory,theBrownUniversityHistoryDepartment,and tro N theBritishAssociationforAmericanStudiesConference,Glasgow,Scotland,al- fo ytisre lowedmetopresentpiecesofthisbook.Ineachcase,Ibenefitedmightilyfrom vin thecommentsandcriticismsoftheparticipants. U .70 JohnMurrinandRhysIsaacactedasreadersfortheOmohundroInstituteof 0 2 © EarlyAmericanHistoryandCultureandofferedtheirusualtellinginsightsinto th g iryp themanuscript.FredrikaTeutehasbeenhelpfulandencouragingwhileoffering o C herownwell-thoughtcriticisms.KathyBurdettehasenduredmyeffortstore- workInstituteeditingpoliciesandcaughtmorethanoneabuseoftheEnglish McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30. language.Together,thereadersandtheeditorhavemadeTheKing’sThreeFaces agoodbitbetterthanitwaswhentheyfirstreceivedit,andIamgratefulfortheir assistance. While institutions help make books, they are, happily, written for people. WhileteachingatSUNY—Binghamton,Ienjoyedthehelpandassistanceofa numberofmycolleaguesandstudentsasIworkedonthisproject.MelDubof- sky,DaveHacker,BonnieEffros,SarahElbert,PepiLevene,NancyHenry,Greg Geddes,KarenKaminski,HeatherSchwartz,DianneCappiello,JoeTorre,Tunis Cooper, Lance Sussman, and Michelle Harris all encouraged (or enabled, de- pendingonyourview)thisproject.AtBostonUniversity,mygraduatestudents Erik Cooper and Andrea Mosterman have assisted me and otherwise helped maintainmyenthusiasmforearlyAmericanhistory. My friends in and out of the profession have endured more talk about the eighteenthcenturythananyreasonablegroupofpeopleshouldbeexpectedto. DallettHemphill,SimonNewman,CynthiaVanZandt,TimHarris,TimShan- non,PhilBenedict,SusanBranson,EdGrey,SamKorsak,TomSlaughter,Robert Johnston,RachelWheeler,JohnSmolenski,BillPencak,andEvanHaefelihave allatvarioustimeslistenedtomegoonatlengthaboutcolonialAmerica’smo- narchicalcharacter.Theyhavedonesowithgoodhumor,andfourpeople,Dal- lettHemphill,EvanHaefeli,KarinWulf,andPhilBenedict,readmostorallof earlyversionsofthemanuscriptandofferedexcellentadvicetoimproveit. Threefriends,BradThompson,JaySamons,andBrianKeeganhaveendured .de theupsanddownsofthisbook,andmylife,foralongtime.Theiradvicehas vre se beenhonest,andtheiropinionswellthoughtandoriginal.Thefirsthasassailed r sthg me about thevalue of political philosophyand Canada for twenty years now, ir llA .sserP btarrogaedteonfinhgummoyribnytetllheectluatatlehr.oTrihzeonsescwonitdhhthasedfoervmeloerpeadndinpmroeviadidnegepmeeruanhduegre- a nilo standing of myself and the society we live in and withstood with patience my ra C h futileeffortstoachieveadrag-freefloatontheWestBranchoftheDelaware.The tro N thirdhasforoverthreedecadesstoodbymeinallcircumstances,asIhavewan- fo ytisre deredfromplacetoplace,andthroughlife’striumphsandtragedies.Inallcases, vin theyhaveactedthepartoffriendinamodelmanner. U .70 Finally,Iwanttothankmywifeandmotherfortheirloveandsupport.My 0 2 © mother has encouraged me to be myown person from earliest childhood and th g iryp tocallthingsasIseethemregardlessofwhetherthatistheacceptedview.My o C wife,Kristen,marriedanIrishbachelorwhenhewascompletingabookabout kingsandcolonists,thusdemonstratinguncommondevotion—andoptimism. viii :  McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30. Although,likeallauthors,Ihopetoreachthebroadestaudience,thistinyone, closesttohomeandheart,isthemostimportanttome. BrendanMcConville BostonUniversity December, .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .7 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C  : ix McConville, Brendan. The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sinciatw/detail.action?docID=4321914. Created from sinciatw on 2020-10-30 17:25:30.

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