Jasper Ridley, Author . Carroll & Graf $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0854-3
By the standards of 20th-century terrors, the numbers of men and women who fell victim to reactionary Catholic oppression during the reign of Queen Mary (1554–58) were modest: fewer than 300 were executed for their Protestant faith. But the...
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Jasper Ridley, Author . Arcade $25.95 (357p) ISBN 978-1-55970-601-8
As Masonic halls throughout America shut their doors because of declining membership Ridley provides an extended history of the group that was in its prime a couple of generations ago. Although its origins can be traced to stonemasons of the Middle...
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Jasper Ridley, Author St. Martin's Press $27.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-19303-4
Hitler once allegedly told Mussolini that he was ""too kind to be any good as a dictator."" The remark, suggests prolific biographer Ridley (Thomas Cranmer; Lord Palmerston; Garibaldi; Tito), was ""banter between friends in which an apparent censure
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Jasper Ridley, Author Fromm International $16 (391p) ISBN 978-0-88064-110-4
The author views the Virgin Queen as a manipulator, frequently indecisive and mistaken in judgment, at considerable cost to England--but during her reign England became the mightiest country in the Western world. ``Ridley here broadens the reader's...
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Jasper Ridley, Author, Jasper Ridler, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-89919-989-4
Ridley ( Elizabeth I ) offers a highly-detailed narrative of Napoleon III's strange, tragic mid-19th-century effort to install the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximillian as emperor of Mexico. Drawing on a wealth of sources, Ridley ably reconstructs
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