We have been taught to think of Napoleon as a dangerous man with an unquenchable thirst for conquest and glory, but Tim Clayton argues convincingly for a different perspective: fearing a homegrown coup in Britain, Parliament used bribery and coercion in an effort to kill the man who embodied the French Revolution. As Clayton lays out in detail, the British government launched a propaganda campaign of unprecedented scope and intensity, part of a 20 year push to motivate George III's reluctant subjects to fight a war to the death against the self-proclaimed emperor.