William Cecil
Smith, Alan Gordon![William Cecil](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/155/1557296/CHSBZCOP031557296.jpg)
An essential study of Cecil and the Elizabethan court, especially with regard to the establishment of English international power and the defeat of the Armada.From the preface: "It was an ironical fate to achieve while living a flame of the very first magnitude, only to have it consistently debased by posterity: to be acknowledged by contemporaries as the virtual 'Ruler of England' throughout the period that was most decisive in the nation's d...