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An insightful portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), who the author says, stands first, half warrior, half saint, in the calendar of the English-speaking democracy. This compelling biography examines Cromwells early life up through his adulthood to his death. The volume focuses on his personality as well as his careera career Morley deems contradictory, as Cromwell was named everything from blood-stained and hypocritical usurper up to transcendental hero and liberator of mankind.

John Morley (1838-1923) was an English journalist, historian, and politician.  In addition to his government work as Chief Secretary for Ireland and, later, Secretary of State for India, he wrote popular biographies.  Among the best remembered of these are his biographies of Edmund Burke (1867), Voltaire (1871), and Rousseau (1873).  He was ennobled as Viscount Morley of Blackburn in 1908.