Subversive Satire: Laughter as a weapon against power

Satire that cut close enough to the bone to be suppressed — Swift, Voltaire, Twain, and Shaw, who hid hard truths inside a joke.

In this collection

• The Massacre
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• Worldliness of the Majority
• After Jenkins
• The Politicians
• Haïta the Shepherd
• Information Wanted
• In Contumaciam
• Concerning Tobacco
• Six and One
• The Angel's Tear
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• Some Features of the Law
• A Growler
• Dies Irae
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-Year-Olds"
• The Lassoed Bear
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3
• Salvation at First a Class Privilege; and the Remedy
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 2
• Three and One are One
• A Cold Night
• An "Exhibit"
• The Farmer and the Fox
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