Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness

<p>The book bridges disciplines-24 journals in literature history science medicine philosophy religion and Ireland have acclaimed this classic fascinating extraordinarily well-informed careful and encyclopedic.</p><p>Craven reminds us of Swift's uncanny foreknowledge that democratic governments tend toward a populace inundated by false information it cannot process and leaders intent only upon power and the deceptions by which it is gained.-Melvyn New</p><p> This new edition situates Swift's early masterpiece in its most resonant possible context - its savage critique of John Locke whose life and philosophical work simultaneously served to legitimate government by popular sovereignty and to countenance colonial violence and slavery.-Clement Hawes</p>