Contents: Introduction: 'The church had never such a writer' / Chapter 1: Swift, War, and Ireland: 'an Heap of Conspiracies, Rebellions, Murders, Massacres, Revolutions, Banishments' / Chapter 2: Courting the Favour of the Great: A Discourse and A Tale of a Tub / Chapter 3: 'an entire Friend to the established Church': Churchman among the Statesmen and Wits / Chapter 4: The Echo of the coffee House and the Voice of the Kingdom: Propagandist for a Peace / Chapter 5: 'do I become a Slave in six Hours, by crossing the Channel?': The Dean, the Drapier, and Irish Politics / Conclusion: 'Upon this Great foundation of Misanthropy.