Written in 1900, while he was governor of New York, Roosevelt’s life of Cromwell follows the Long Parliament and the Civil War, the second war and the king’s execution, the campaigns in Ireland and Scotland, and the Commonwealth and Protectorate. He admires Cromwell as the greatest Englishman of his century while judging his turn to personal rule.
A revealing double portrait, as telling about Roosevelt’s own ideas of leadership as about Cromwell. Download the free EPUB.