{"product_id":"2940170606375","title":"Richard III: England's Most Controversial King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England's most controversial king.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard's life and times. \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e examines in intense detail Richard's inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098451067120,"sku":"2940170606375","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170606375_p0.jpg?v=1763714059","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170606375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}