The United States of America has (have) finally come full-circle. We now have our own George III. Our first George, of course, was Washington, who earned his royal status in the oldest European tradition — by having first proved to be a Great Warrior. It's true that he is known for steadfastly refusing to be treated like a king, and we still think of him as among the least autocratic of our nation's chief executives. Yet, this u2018father' of the newly-constructed Union who had so recently left the battlefield in a supposed war for freedom wasted no time in ruthlessly … Continue reading George-the-Third-the-Second