in his own day, Thomas Wolsey was not a well-liked man. Nor
have all his biographers been kind to him. Yet his talents were
vast and his impress on history enormous. The son of a small-town Eng-
lish butcher, he rose to become a Cardinal of his Church, Lord Chan-
cellor of his nation and mentor to his monarch. While his career was at
its zenith, he helped preside over the destruction of the feudal order
in England, and his fall marked England s separation from Rome.
By any standards, such a human being and such a career are re-
markable. But they were even more remarkable in their time than in
ours. For Wolsey was the very model of the self-made man and of the
efficient, driving administrator--a type rare 400 years ago, but intimate-
ly familiar to the 2oth Century. It is primarily in this light that Charles
W. Ferguson has told his story, with a wealth of careful and fascinating
detail that vividly illuminates the years that formed the link between
medieval England and the Elizabethan Age.
Naked to Mine Enemies, which appeared in i958 to the lavish
praise of historians, was Ferguson s fourth book in a writing career that
includes titles on such varied subjects as etymology, travel and American
social mores. After publishing a novel and a religious work in the late
i92os, Ferguson had put his background as an ordained Methodist
minister to use as religious editor for a magazine and later as a book pub-
lisher. In x934 he gravitated into general editing for the Reader s Digest,
where he has worked ever since.
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