Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and was fatally accused of trying to usurp the king himself. But in this engrossing new biography, acclaimed British historian Tracy Borman reveals a different side to one of history s most notorious characters: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal servant and friend,...