Jonathan Swift - The Reluctant Rebel

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.