PositiveThe Washington Post\"Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life will satisfy popular curiosity about Mantel’s protagonist. It’s a gripping story about power, political turmoil and seismic cultural change played out against the backdrop of rule by a psychopath. MacCulloch... not only exhibits a witty and readable writing style, but he also proves himself to be a formidable master of the archive ...The sheer accessibility of this book belies the work that must have gone into researching and writing it ... Indeed MacCulloch’s recurrent use of the term \'traditionalist\' to describe Cromwell’s contemporaries who retained a conscientious loyalty to the mainstream of Western Christendom occasionally seems somewhat tendentious.\
