Kirstin Downey. (2014). Isabella: The Warrior Queen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Kirstin Downey. 2014. Isabella: The Warrior Queen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Kirstin Downey, Isabella: The Warrior Queen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.

Kirstin Downey. Isabella: The Warrior Queen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: KIRSTIN DOWNEY is the author of The Woman Behind the New Deal, which was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was one of the writers of the New York Times bestselling Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and was previously a staff writer at the Washington Post, where she shared in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. She was a Neiman fellow at Harvard University in 2001. She is married to Neil Warner Averitt, and together they have five children.
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An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history
Born at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by tales of Joan of Arc, a devout young woman who unified her people and led them to victory against foreign invaders. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She sponsored Columbus's trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World with the help of Rodrigo Borgia, the infamous Pope Alexander VI. She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain's reputation for centuries. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world, in which millions of people in two hemispheres speak Spanish and practice Catholicism. Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella's influence, due to hundreds of years of misreporting that often attributed her accomplishments to Ferdinand, the bold and philandering husband she adored. Using new scholarship, Downey's luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.

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   • source: TIME
   • content: "A tale of feminist ambition that reads like a pulpy novel. (Don't be a snob--that's a good thing.)"
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   • source: Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "[An] immensely provocative figure... [who] successfully maneuvered in an almost exclusively male world of politics."
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   • content: "From Game of Thrones to Pillars of the Earth, popular culture offers up medieval stories where royal blood grabs for power, where crucial alliances are built between church and state, where important people suddenly fall over dead after a sumptuous meal, poisoned by a hidden rival. But this world did, in fact, exist, and the subject of Kristen Downey's new biography, Queen Isabella of Castile, maneuvered through it with unlikely and thrilling success... Downey writes with eloquence and intensity about Isabella's life, making what could have been a distant history into a dramatic page turner."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews, starred review
   • content: "A strong, fascinating woman, Isabella helped to usher in the modern age, and this rich, clearly written biography is a worthy chronicle of her impressive yet controversial life."
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   • source: Amanda Foreman, author of the New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
   • content: "Kirstin Downey triumphantly restores Isabella to her rightful place in history. This is an engrossing new portrait of one of the most fascinating and controversial women who ever lived."
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   • source: Deirdre Bair, National Book Award-winning author of Samuel Beckett
   • content: "Kirstin Downey makes medieval history read like a modern day thriller. Queen Isabella's life unfolded at the pivotal moment when the old world was astonished by the discovery of the new, and this graceful and insightful biography reveals her crucial role in making it happen."
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   • source: Lynne Olson, author of the New York Times bestseller Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh and America's Fight Over World War II
   • content: "In this astonishing biography, Kirstin Downey brings to life the most powerful queen in history, whose extraordinary impact on the world -- for good and ill -- continues to this day. Downey is particularly good at showing the human side of Isabella, whose life was an unending struggle to assert herself while navigating the countless intrigues and treachery of men who wanted to bring her down, including her own faithless and jealous husband, Ferdinand. It's a fascinating story with great resonance for today."
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   • source: Jack Weatherford, author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
   • content: "Queen Isabella was the most important woman in the history of Europe, and more than any person of her era she set the stage for modern Europe and America. Using Muslim, Jewish, and Christian sources, Kirstin Downey's gripping biography reveals how Isabella acquired such importance and vividly narrates the incredible drama of her life."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Perfect for both historical novices and experts in European history, this solidly-researched, engaging description of Isabella's achievements also humanizes her through discussion of her intricate relationships with combative family members and allows readers to see Isabella's fingerprints on Renaissance culture and religion."
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      September 8, 2014
      The reserved, devoutly Catholic Isabella seized the Castilian throne in 1474, when she was just 23 years old. Having relegated her unwise husband Ferdinand to consort status, Isabella enjoyed major military successes, popularity with both her advisors and her subjects, and significant territorial acquisitions in the New World. Downey (The Woman Behind the New Deal) argues that Isabella served as a true paragon of Machiavelli’s good prince; from her demonstrations of political and battlefield strength in quelling the Ottoman Empire’s efforts at expansion to negotiating treaties and her offspring’s politically fraught marriage contracts. Downey shows how Isabella’s reign prepared Renaissance Spain’s rise to superpower status by consolidating multiple, often ineffectually led, kingdoms into one, all the while patronizing exploration and art. Perfect for both historical novices and experts in European history, this solidly-researched, engaging description of Isabella’s achievements also humanizes her through discussion of her intricate relationships with combative family members and allows readers to see Isabella’s fingerprints on Renaissance culture and religion.

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      June 15, 2014
      

      Remember Spain's mighty monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella? Downey, finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for The Woman Behind the New Deal, argues that it was all Isabella, who went up against not just her unpredictable (but beloved) husband but a nasty brother so that she could seize control of Castile and Leon. Then she pushed the Moors and Jews from Spain and launched a worldwide empire. Downey did new research, often in primary sources heretofore locked up behind the Iron Curtain, to present Isabella as a significant force in shaping the modern world.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      September 15, 2014
      

      Queen Isabella I of Castile (1401-1504), according to Dorney (The Woman Behind the New Deal), was one of the most competent rulers of the male-dominated Middle Ages. Her authority in the affairs of her realm is buried in the formula "Ferdinand and Isabella," which she wholeheartedly endorsed. Yet Isabella established her dominance at the beginning of her reign, informing her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon of her accession only after she had been publicly acclaimed. Downey (ID?)argues that many of Isabella's actions weren't always sound; her persecution of Jews and Moors tarnished her reputation, as did Spain's treatment of New World natives. Here readers see Isabella's actions from the viewpoint of her age. The author is, at times, too trusting of the testimony of the various partisan chroniclers of Isabella's reign, but she presents a well-written, balanced study. Excursuses lay out the back history and explain the period culture and mind-set. VERDICT This engaging biography will appeal to casual readers of history but will not offer new information to scholars. [See Prepub Alert, 6/2/14.]--David Keymer, Modesto, CA

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Born at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by tales of Joan of Arc, a devout young woman who unified her people and led them to victory against foreign invaders. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She sponsored Columbus's trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control...

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