A review by traveling_in_books
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

5.0

A richly detailed account of the extraordinary life of Thomas Cromwell, who rose from a low-born family and became the second most powerful man in the court of King Henry VIII. MacColluch presents Cromwell as neither hero nor villain, but as a man with keen wit and intelligence who managed to navigate the troubled political waters of his time while enacting sweeping reforms that affected English politics for centuries after his death.