wws wrote: “I looked up Roosevelt’s “Cromwell” since the 1928 date bothered me”

Good catch, wws! Thanks for that. I took the 1928 date from the frontispiece of my copy (which had originally been gifted to the Newark NJ Public Library, by the way — the stories that books could tell!). The next page notes that the original copyright was in 1900, as you had said.

As an aside, John Buchan also wrote a book on Cromwell, titled “Oliver Cromwell”, Houghton Mifflin 1934. Buchan had been Governor-General of Canada as well as being a successful novelist. But judged by these two books, Teddy Roosevelt was the better writer.

Interesting that the Western World once had politicians who could – and would – write history. Now the best we get is ghost-written autobiography. Where did we go wrong?