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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
by MacCulloch, Diarmaid
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670025577
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025572
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Viking; Penguin Random House, 2018. xxiii, 728 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Multi-award-winning historian -MacCulloch (Thomas Cranmer: A Life) spent a decade digging through the royal archives to arrive at a refreshed view of Henry VIII's right-hand man, scorned by history and presented more sympathetically in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. MacCulloch's Cromwell is a brilliant administrator and loving father whose carefully crafted decisions changed the course of British politics and religion." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; Journeys. Ruffian; The return of the native; In the Cardinal's service: 1524-1528; Managing failure: 1528-1529; Serving two masters: 1530; New wine. Council and Parliament: 1531; New Year's gifts: 1532; Making a difference: 1532; A royal marriage: 1532-1533; Touching pitch. Treason in prospect: 1533-1534; Spirituals: 1534-1535; Deaths for religion: 1535; Progresses and scrutinies: 1535-1536; Surrenders and the scaffold: 1536; Power and its reward. Summer opportunities: 1536; Grace for the Commonwealth: 1536; The reckoning: 1537; The King's uncle? 1537-1538; Cutting down trees: 1538; Nemesis. Shifting dynasties: 1538-1539; Stumbling blocks: 1539; Downfall: 1539-1540; Futures.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 116031
- Title
- Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
- Author
- MacCulloch, Diarmaid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670025577
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025572
- Publisher
- Viking; Penguin Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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