Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: "A mind of his own" xiii
Chapter 1 "Before my eyes these heroes stand": Frederick and Bute 1
Chapter 2 "A very honest boy": Augusta, Bute, and George 19
Chapter 3 "This mighty engine" 39
Chapter 4 "Points of such immense consequence": Thoughts on Future Taxation 55
Chapter 5 "Harmony, mutual confidence, and the extension of their commerce": The Purposes of America 71
Chapter 6 "Not sorry to be a king" 87
Chapter 7 Taxing Beer 97
Chapter 8 "A vast change for us": January-August 1761 119
Chapter 9 Pitt's War: August-October 1761 141
Chapter 10 Recruiting Grenville 161
Chapter 11 "The unerring evidence of figures": October 1761-March 1762 183
Chapter 12 One Million or Two?: The Vote of Credit Controversy, April-May 1762 203
Chapter 13 The Sine Qua Non of Peace: Santa Lucia, April-July 1762 219
Chapter 14 The Reckoning: Bute and Oswald, June-November 1762 239
Chapter 15 The Politics of Peacemaking: July-October 1762 255
Chapter 16 The Crisis Resolved: October-December 1762 267
Chapter 17 Through a Glass Darkly: January-February 1763 283
Chapter 18 The King and His Army: September 1762-March 1763 297
Chapter 19 An American Revenue: Fall 1762-April 1763 317
Chapter 20 Settling the Succession at the Treasury: March-April 1763 335
Epilogue: The King, His Dearest Friend, and the Gentle Shepherd, 1763-1765 349
Index 365
