Selected Bibliography
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online catalog contains approximately forty subject headings
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From among the hundreds of Adams-related titles in the Library
of Congress collections, the bibliography below highlights
the most significant editions of works by Adams and a limited
selection of biographies and other works particularly useful
to general and younger readers.
Adams, Charles Francis, ed. The Works
of John Adams, Second President of the United States.
10 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1850-56.
LC Call Number: E302 .A26 [Catalog
Record]
Butterfield, Lyman H., et al., eds. The
Adams Family Correspondence. Cambridge: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 1963-.
LC Call Number: E322.1 .A27 [Catalog
Record]
Butterfield, Lyman H., et al., eds. Diary
and Autobiography of John Adams. 4 vols. Cambridge:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961.
LC Call Number: E322 .A3 [Catalog
Record]
Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson
Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson
and Abigail and John Adams. 1959; rpt. Chapel Hill:
Published for the Institute of Early American History and
Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North
Carolina Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E322 .A4 1988 [Catalog
Record]
Carey, George W., ed. The Political
Writings of John Adams. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing,
2000.
LC Call Number: JC176 .A33 2000 [Catalog
Record]
Diggins, John Patrick, ed. The Portable
John Adams. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
LC Call Number: E302 .A262 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Hogan, Margaret A., and C. James Taylor, eds. My
Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2007.
LC Call Number: E322 .A4 2007 [Catalog
Record]
Taylor, Robert J., et al., eds. The
Papers of John Adams. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1977-.
LC Call Number: E302 .A26 1977 [Catalog
Record]
Wroth, L. Kinvin, and Hiller B. Zobel, eds. Legal
Papers of John Adams. 3 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 1965.
LC Call Number: KF213.A33 W76 1965 [Catalog
Record]
Brown, Ralph A. The Presidency of John
Adams. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975.
LC Call Number: E321 .B84 [Catalog
Record]
Diggins, John P. John Adams.
New York: Times Books, 2003.
LC Call Number: E322 .D54 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Ellis, Joseph J. Passionate Sage: The
Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York: Norton,
1993.
LC Call Number: E321 .E45 1993 [Catalog
Record]
Ferling, John E. Adams vs. Jefferson:
The Tumultuous Election of 1800. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004.
LC Call Number: E330 .F47 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Ferling, John E. John Adams: A Life.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
LC Call Number: E322 .F47 1992 [Catalog
Record]
Grant, James. John Adams: Party of One.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
LC Call Number: E322 .G73 2005 [Catalog
Record]
Haraszti, Zoltan. John Adams and the
Prophets of Progress. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1952.
LC Call Number: E322 .H3 [Catalog
Record]
McCullough, David G. John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
LC Call Number: E322 .M38 2001 [Catalog
Record]
Shaw, Peter. The Character of John Adams.
Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University
of North Carolina Press, 1976.
LC Call Number: E322 .S54 [Catalog
Record]
Smith, Page. John Adams. 2 vols.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962.
LC Call Number: E322 .S64 [Catalog
Record]
Ferling, John E., comp. John Adams:
A Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
LC Call Number: Z8015.6 .F46 1994 E322 [Catalog
Record]
Guidas, John T, and Marilyn K. Parr, comps. The
Presidents of the United States: The First Twenty Years.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993.
LC Call Number: Z1239 .P74 1993 E310 [Catalog
Record]
Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the
United States--Their Written Measure: A Bibliography.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996.
LC Call Number: Z1249.P7 S29 1996 [Catalog
Record]
Behrman, Carol H. John Adams.
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 2004.
LC Call Number: E322 .B44 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Feinberg, Barbara Silberdick. John Adams:
America’s 2nd President. New York: Children’s
Press, 2003.
LC Call Number: E322 .F54 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Harness, Cheryl. The Revolutionary John
Adams. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003.
LC Call Number: E322 .H37 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Kent, Zachary. John Adams: Creating
a Nation. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers,
2004.
LC Call Number: E322 .K46 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Lukes, Bonnie L. John Adams: Public
Servant. Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds, 2001.
LC Call Number: E322 .L84 2001 [Catalog
Record]
St. George, Judith. John & Abigail
Adams: An American Love Story. New York: Holiday House,
2001.
LC Call Number: E322 .S78 2001 [Catalog
Record]
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