Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformationserved as chief minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540, themost tumultuous period in Henry's thirty-seven-year reign. Manyof the momentous events of the 1530s are attributed to Cromwell'sagency, the Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries andthe fall of Henry's second wife, the bewitching Anne Boleyn.Cromwell has been the subject of close and continuous attentionfor the last half century, with positive appraisal of his workand achievements by historians, this new biography shows the trueface of a Machiavellian Tudor statesman's of no equal.
