{"product_id":"richard-iii-the-maligned-king-9780750949736","title":"Richard III: The Maligned King","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Richard III industry has always  to some extent  baffled me. Books which proclaim that Richard was a great man and ruler  and certainly not responsible for the murder of the princes in the tower  or even  it would seem  any ill intent when he usurped the throne  seem to appear at the rate of almost one a year  and the Richard III society has serious popular and financial support  and yet such books always present the debate as if they were a lone voice in the wilderness  against the systematic misrepresentation of the establishment. Whilst it is undoubtedly better researched  argued and footnoted than many of its predecessors  this book recycles many of the same arguments and assumptions. This is not to say that the Tudor demonization is somehow correct  or that Richard was not in many respects a capable man  but that this kind of polemic  which starts from a position of Richards almost certain innocence and proceeds from there seems to me to be falling into precisely the same pitfalls of pre-judging evidence of which it accuses the accounts of more establishment historians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273924370485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0750949732","price":337.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780750949736.jpg?v=1780492292","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/richard-iii-the-maligned-king-9780750949736","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}