An Unreasonable Man, a 2007 documentary about Ralph Nader. In a career spanning six decades, he covered many topics including automobile safety, far-right activities including the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazism, and campaigns against solitary confinement. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Parade, Harper's, The Nation, Dollars & Sense, The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and other magazines and newspapers. Personal life Ridgeway married Patricia Carol Dodge, an editor with The New Republic, in 1966. The couple went on to have a son. Ridgeway died on February 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 84. Works Ridgeway was the author and editor of twenty books on domestic and foreign affairs, including The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis; The Politics of Ecology; and, more recently, The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us; The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis; Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare (a collection co-edited with Jasminka Udovicki); A Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with Jeffrey St. Clair); and Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, the Rise of a New White Culture. He wrote the text for Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry, with photographs by Sylvia Plachy. Together with Jean Casella and Sarah Shourd, he also co-edited the first anthology of writing from solitary confinement, Hell Is a Very Small Place, published in 2016. Ridgeway co-directed the companion film Blood in the Face, as well as Feed, a documentary on the 1992 presidential campaign.Blood in the Face, Washington Post, Rita Kempley, May 17, 1991. Retrieved August 17, 2021. A revised edition of his book Blood in the Face covering the events from 2010s is planned to launch in mid-2021. References External links "Sweet Subpoena: Nine Investigations That Could Spice Up the Next Congress", Mother Jones, September/October 2006. Ridgewayng.com: Original reporting. News video collaborations between Ridgeway and Alicia Ng. Retrieved April 13, 2006. eText of Politics of Ecology 'VV' Staff Protests Ridgeway's Firing; Management Doesn't Care Village Voice Shakeup: Top Investigative Journalist Fired, Prize-Winning Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times Media . Download in MP3. Watch in 128K . Read Transcript . Host Amy Goodman interviews current and former staff James Ridgeway, Nat Hentoff, Tom Robbins, Sydney Schanberg and two reporters Mark Jacobson and Tim Redmond. James Ridgeway at