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 and a turbulent period of English and Irish history..
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 and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
