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Books about the Adamses
Adams
Genealogy
Adams Family
Abigail Adams
John Adams
Abigail Adams Smith
John Quincy Adams
Charles Francis Adams
Charles Francis Adams 2d
Henry Adams
Marian Hooper Adams
Adams
Genealogy
A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass. and His
Descendants: Also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., 1632-1897, comp.
by Andrew N. Adams. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1898. Reprint: Newburyport,
Mass.: Parker River Researchers, 1984.
American Presidential Families, comp. Hugh Brogan and Charles
Mosley. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993.
Adams
Family
America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735–1918, by Richard Brookhiser. New York: The Free Press, 2002.
The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family,
1762-1784, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1975. Reprint: Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family,
by Paul C. Nagel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters,
by Paul C. Nagel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Abigail
Adams
Abigail Adams: An American Woman, by Charles W. Akers. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1980. 2d ed.: New York: Addison Wesley
Longman, 2000.
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution, by Natalie S. Bober.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995.
Abigail Adams: A Writing Life, by Edith B. Gelles. New York: Routledge, 2002.
First Thoughts: Life and Letters of Abigail Adams, by Edith
B. Gelles. New York: Macmillan, 1998.
Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, by Edith B. Gelles. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992.
Abigail Adams: A Biography, by Phyllis Lee Levin. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Partner in Revolution: Abigail Adams, by Clare Hodgson Meeker.
New York: Benchmark Books, 1998.
Founding Mothers: the women who raised our nation, by Cokie Roberts. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams, by Lynne Withey. New York: Free Press, 1981.
John
Adams
The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States:
with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams. 10 vols.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1850-1856.
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between
Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, ed. Lester J. Cappon.
2 vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Reprint:
1988.
John Adams, by John P. Diggins. New York: Times Books, 2003
Founding Brothers:
The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis. New York:
Knopf, 2000.
Passionate
Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, by Joseph J. Ellis.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.
Setting the
World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the American Revolution,
by John E. Ferling. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
John Adams: Party of One, by James Grant. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
John Adams: A Life, by John Ferling. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1992.
John Adams,
by David McCullough. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
John Adams and the Founding of the Republic, ed. Richard Alan Ryerson. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001.
The Character
of John Adams, by Peter Shaw. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1976.
The Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805–1813, ed. John A Schutz and Douglass Adair. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1966. Reprint: Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001.
John Adams
and the Spirit of Liberty, by C. Bradley Thompson. Lawrence:
University of Kansas Press, 1998.
America Afire:
Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800,
by Bernard A. Weisberger. New York: Morrow, 2000.
Abigail Adams Smith
Colonel William Smith and lady; the romance of Washington’s aide and young Abigail Adams, by Katherine Metcalf Roof. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.
John Quincy Adams
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary
from 1795 to 1848, ed. Charles Francis Adams. 12 vols. Philadelphia:
J. P. Lippincott & Co., 1874-1877.
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
John Quincy
Adams and the Union, by Samuel Flagg Bemis. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1956.
The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America’s greatest museum: The Smithsonian, by Nina Burleigh. New York: Morrow, 2003.
John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union, by James E. Lewis Jr. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
Arguing About
Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States
Congress, by William Lee Miller. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1996.
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life, by Paul C.
Nagel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
John Quincy Adams, by Lynn Hudson Parsons. Madison: Madison
House, 1998.
John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist, by Paul E. Teed. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2006.
John Quincy Adams, by Robert Vincent Remini. New York: Times Books, 2002.
Charles
Francis Adams
Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886, by Martin B. Duberman. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
Charles Francis Adams 2d
Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, L.D. Brandeis..., by Thomas McCraw. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Henry
Adams
A Biography
of Henry Adams, by Edward Chalfant. 3 vols. Hamden, Conn.: Archon
Books, 1982-2000. Vol. 1: Both Sides of the Ocean: His First
Life, 1838-1862; vol. 2: Better in Darkness: His Second Life,
1862-1891; vol. 3: Improvement of the World: His Last Life,
1891-1918.
Henry Adams and the American Experiment, by David R. Contosta. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Henry Adams and His World, by David R. Contosta and Robert Muccigrosso. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1993.
The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams, by William Merrill Decker. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Henry Adams, the Myth of Failure, by William Dusinberre. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.
Henry Adams and the Southern Question, by Michael O’Brien. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880–1918, by Patricia O’Toole. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1990.
The Education
of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams; ed. Ernest Samuels. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.
Henry Adams,
by Ernest Samuels. 3 vols. Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1948-1964. Vol. 1: The Young Henry Adams; vol. 2:
Henry Adams: The Middle Years; vol. 3: Henry Adams: The
Major Phase.
The Political Education of Henry Adams, by Brooks D. Simpson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
The Ironies of Progress: Henry Adams and the American Dream, by William Wasserstrom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
Henry Adams and the making of America, by Gary Wills. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Henry Adams: the Historian as Political Theorist, by James P. Young. Lawrence, Ka.: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Marian
Hooper Adams
Clover: The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their
Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age, by Otto Friedrich. New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams, by Eugenia Kaledin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
Clover, by Freidrich Otto. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1865-1883, ed. by Ward Thoron. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1936.
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