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This volume collects Swift's political writings from the early 1710s, including most notably The Conduct of the Allies and The Publick Spirit of the Whigs. The volume includes an introduction drawing on current scholarly interpretations, detailed contextual explanatory notes, and a comprehensive account of the textual history of each work.

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Introduction; The Conduct of the Allies; Some Advice Humbly Offer''d to the Members of the October Club; Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty; The New Way of Selling Places at Court; Some Reasons to Prove, That No Person is Obliged by His Principles, as a Whig, To Oppose Her Majesty or Her Present; It''s Out at Last: Or, French Correspondence Clear as the Sun; A Dialogue upon Dunkirk, between a Whig and a Tory; A Hue and Cry after Dismal; A Letter from the Pretender, to a Whig-Lord; Refutation of Falsehoods against Lewis or The Examiner (2 February 1713); Vote of Thanks by the House of Lords (9 April 1713); The Humble Address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled, Presented to Her Majesty On Saturday the Eleventh Day of April, 1713; The Importance of the Guardian Considered; The Publick Spirit of the Whigs; A Discourse concerning the Fears from the Pretender; Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs; Some Considerations upon the Consequences hoped and feared from the Death of the Queen; Contributions to The Post Boy and The Evening Post; Appendices; Transcripts of the British Library manuscripts of the Vote of Thanks and Humble Address; Textual appendices; General textual introduction; Textual notes on individual works; Bibliography; Index.