About the Book This comprehensive new study provides an original and provocative approach to Cromwells reputation and his role in the English revolution. J. C. Daviss penetrating analysis reveals Cromwells successes and failures and offers a fascinating assessment of his life and achievements. Book Synopsis This comprehensive new study provides an original and provocative approach to Cromwells reputation and his role in the English revolution. J. C. Daviss penetrating analysis reveals Cromwells successes and failures and offers a fascinating assessment of his life and achievements. Review Quotes A highly sophisticated and profoundly skeptical book...The most intellectually satisfying book on Cromwell this reviewer has ever read. Deserves to be read by all students of the period. -- Albion About the Author J. C. Davis is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of East Anglia, UK