Oliver Cromwell (Profiles in Power) (Used Copy)

Description

Dr Coward is particularly interested in the apparent contradictions of Cromwell’s character and career: what was it that caused him to act at times with such agonising indecisiveness, and on other occasions to take such awesome risks, apparently in complete disregard of his own political future and personal safety? Cromwell’s motives and actions have been clouded since his own day by much that has been written about him – some of it bitterly hostile, some of it excessively adulatory. Barry Coward attempts to by-pass such distorting comments by analysing Cromwell’s words and actions in their proper historical context. The result is to reveal a consistent thread running through a career that so often seems to be inconsistent or contradictory.

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