
Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men`s vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice
- a man sharply aware of humanity`s flaws, but no less susceptible to them. As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man & a turbulent period of English & Irish history.