John Briggs Books

What to Do When Your Best Book Isn’t Your Bestelling

As Jonathan Swift’s life drew to a close and dementia set in, he would crawl into bed, read his favorite book and say, “My God, I was brilliant once.”

Which book was that?

If you said Gulliver’s Travels, that’s understandable.

If you said A Modest Proposal, I wouldn’t blame you.

But nope, it was his first book…