TY - BOOK ID - 135400693 TI - The making of Oliver Cromwell PY - 2021 SN - 9780300262759 0300262752 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Heads of state KW - Cromwell, Oliver, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135400693 AB - Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction. ER -