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JOHN ADAMS:

MASSACHUSETTS PATRIOT,

AMERICAN PRESIDENT,

HBO SUPERSTAR

Books

McCullough, David G. John Adams. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

973.44 MCCULLOUGH

This is the book on which the entire HBO series is based. It is thoroughly researched and beautifully written.

THE ADAMS FAMILY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818. Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784. Edited and with an introduction by L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, and Mary-Jo Kline. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. 826 A21BO

Adams, John, 1735-1826. The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams. Edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1946. 826 A21S

Brookhiser, Richard. America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918. New York: Free Press, 2002. 929.2 ADAMS

Brown, Ralph A. The Presidency of John Adams. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975. 973.44 B81P

Chamberlain, Mellen, 1821-1900. John Adams: The Statesman of the American Revolution; With Other Essays and Addresses, Historical and Literary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. MASS 824 C35J

Nagel, Paul C. The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 929.2 A21NA

Nagel, Paul C. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 929.2 A21N

Oliver, Andrew. Portraits of John and Abigail Adams. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1967. 757 O48P

Shepard, Jack. The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. 929.2 A21S

Withey, Lynne. Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams. New York: Free Press, 1981. E A211 .WI

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: THE FOUNDING FATHERS

Adams, John, 1735-1826. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 2 vols. Edited by Lester J. Cappon. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, by the Institute of North Carolina Press, 1959. 826 A21J

The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence. New York: Library of America, 2001. 979.3 AMERICAN

Burg, David F. The American Revolution: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 2001. 973.309 BURG

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard and Later Writings: Letters from London, 1757-1775, Paris, 1776-1785, Philadelphia, 1785-1790, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733-1758, The Autobiography. New York: Library of America, 1997. 973.42 FRANKLIN .FR

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1984. 973.462 J35X

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. Edited by James Morton Smith. 3 vols. New York: Norton, 1995. 973.4 J35R

Madison, James, 1751-1836; Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804; and John Jay, 1745-1829. The Federalist Papers. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1966. 342.732 F31B

Massachusetts Historical Society. Warren-Adams Letters, Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren, 1743-1814. 2 vols. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1917-25. MASS 974.4 MHS

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. The Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 323.3 P16R

THE FOUNDING MOTHERS

Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877. Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence: A One-volume Revised Edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 Landmark Series. Edited and annotated by Lincoln Diamant. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 973.308 E45R

Laska, Vera. Remember the Ladies: Outstanding Women of the American Revolution. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, 1976. 973.309 L33R

Richards, Jeffrey H. Mercy Otis Warren. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

EW2511 .RI

Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation.

New York: William Morrow, 2004. 973.3 ROBERTS

Zagarri, Rosemarie. A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1995. E W2511 .ZA

RELATED WORKS

People

Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1996. 973.419 B79F

Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 973.409 E47F

Emery, Noemie. Washington: A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1976.

973.419 E53W

Fritz, Jean. Cast for a Revolution: Some American Friends and Enemies,

1728-1814. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. E W2511 FR

Hibbert, Christopher. George III: A Personal History. New York: Basic Books, 1998. 941.073 H52G

Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. E FRANKLIN .IS

Malone, Dumas, (1892-1986). Jefferson and His Time. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. 973.46 M29J

Morris, Richard B. Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. 973.309 M83S

Events

Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966. 342.732 B65M

Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. Diary of Independence Hall. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott , 1948. 974.811 E16D

Ferling, John E. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 324.973 FERLING

McCullough, David G. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

973.3 MCCULLOUGH

Madison, James, (1751-1836). The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History From the Notes of James Madison. New York: Modern Library, 2005.

342.73 MADISON

Miller, John Chester. Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. 973.44 M61C

Montross, Lynn. The Reluctant Rebels: The Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. New York: Harper, 1950. 973.31 M76R

Placing People and Events in Context

Ferling, John E. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 973.33 F38A

Handlin, Oscar and Lilian Handlin. A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770-1787. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1982. 973.3 H19R

Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday Life in Early America. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. 973.2 H31E

Mackesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775-1783. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. 973.3 M21W

Massachusetts and the New Nation. Edited by Conrad Wright. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1992. 974.4 M38W

The Revolutionary War Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800. Compiled by Carol Sue Humphrey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.

R 973.3 HUMPHREY

Tocqueville, Alexis de, (1805-1859). Democracy in America. 2 vols. The Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen, now further corrected and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley; forward by Harold J. Laski. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1945. 320 97 T56D

Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2002. 973.3 WOOD

FOR A BROADER BACKGROUND

Documents of American History. Edited by Henry Steele Commager and Milton Cantor. 10th ed. 2 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. R 973 C73D

Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. 973 J63H

Morison, Samuel Eliot. A Concise History of the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 973 M82G

Websites

The Massachusetts Historical Society

Home of the Adams Papers

http://www.masshist.org

Check out their homepage links to information on the Adams family. See photographic copies of the original hand written letters between Abigail and John (with accompanying typescripts).

Adams National Historic Site

Quincy, Massachusetts

http://www.nps.gov/adam

HBO, Host of the John Adams series

http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams

Make sure you check the horizontal frame at the bottom of the page.

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

http://www.yale.edu/franklinpapers

The Thomas Jefferson Papers

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/index.html

ALSO http://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/

The Papers of George Washington

http://gwpapers.virginia.edu

ALSO http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/

The Founding Fathers

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html

The American Revolution

http://www.americanrevolution.org

Archiving Early America

http://earlyamerica.com

Journals of the Continental Congress

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwjc.html

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Reference Materials>Bibliography> Bibliography JOHN ADAMS: MASSACHUSETTS PATRIOT, AMERICAN PRESIDENT, HBO SUPERSTAR Books McCullough, David G. John Adams. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. 973.44 MCCULLOUGH This is the book on which the entire HBO series is based. It is thoroughly researched and beautifully written. THE ADAMS FAMILY OF MASSACHUSETTS Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818. Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784. Edited and with an introduction by L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, and Mary-Jo Kline. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. 826 A21BO Adams, John, 1735-1826. The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams. Edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1946. 826 A21S Brookhiser, Richard. America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918. New York: Free Press, 2002. 929.2 ADAMS Brown, Ralph A. The Presidency of John Adams. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975. 973.44 B81P Chamberlain, Mellen, 1821-1900. John Adams: The Statesman of the American Revolution; With Other Essays and Addresses, Historical and Literary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. MASS 824 C35J Nagel, Paul C. The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 929.2 A21NA Nagel, Paul C. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 929.2 A21N Oliver, Andrew. Portraits of John and Abigail Adams. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1967. 757 O48P Shepard, Jack. The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. 929.2 A21S Withey, Lynne. Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams. New York: Free Press, 1981. E A211 .WI IN THEIR OWN WORDS: THE FOUNDING FATHERS Adams, John, 1735-1826. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 2 vols. Edited by Lester J. Cappon. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, by the Institute of North Carolina Press, 1959. 826 A21J The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence. New York: Library of America, 2001. 979.3 AMERICAN Burg, David F. The American Revolution: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 2001. 973.309 BURG Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard and Later Writings: Letters from London, 1757-1775, Paris, 1776-1785, Philadelphia, 1785-1790, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733-1758, The Autobiography. New York: Library of America, 1997. 973.42 FRANKLIN .FR Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1984. 973.462 J35X Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. Edited by James Morton Smith. 3 vols. New York: Norton, 1995. 973.4 J35R Madison, James, 1751-1836; Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804; and John Jay, 1745-1829. The Federalist Papers. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1966. 342.732 F31B Massachusetts Historical Society. Warren-Adams Letters, Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren, 1743-1814. 2 vols. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1917-25. MASS 974.4 MHS Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. The Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 323.3 P16R THE FOUNDING MOTHERS Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877. Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence: A One-volume Revised Edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 Landmark Series. Edited and annotated by Lincoln Diamant. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 973.308 E45R Laska, Vera. Remember the Ladies: Outstanding Women of the American Revolution. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, 1976. 973.309 L33R Richards, Jeffrey H. Mercy Otis Warren. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. EW2511 .RI Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. New York: William Morrow, 2004. 973.3 ROBERTS Zagarri, Rosemarie. A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1995. E W2511 .ZA RELATED WORKS People Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1996. 973.419 B79F Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 973.409 E47F Emery, Noemie. Washington: A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1976. 973.419 E53W Fritz, Jean. Cast for a Revolution: Some American Friends and Enemies, 1728-1814. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. E W2511 FR Hibbert, Christopher. George III: A Personal History. New York: Basic Books, 1998. 941.073 H52G Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. E FRANKLIN .IS Malone, Dumas, (1892-1986). Jefferson and His Time. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. 973.46 M29J Morris, Richard B. Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. 973.309 M83S Events Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966. 342.732 B65M Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. Diary of Independence Hall. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott , 1948. 974.811 E16D Ferling, John E. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 324.973 FERLING McCullough, David G. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. 973.3 MCCULLOUGH Madison, James, (1751-1836). The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History From the Notes of James Madison. New York: Modern Library, 2005. 342.73 MADISON Miller, John Chester. Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. 973.44 M61C Montross, Lynn. The Reluctant Rebels: The Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. New York: Harper, 1950. 973.31 M76R Placing People and Events in Context Ferling, John E. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 973.33 F38A Handlin, Oscar and Lilian Handlin. A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770-1787. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1982. 973.3 H19R Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday Life in Early America. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. 973.2 H31E Mackesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775-1783. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. 973.3 M21W Massachusetts and the New Nation. Edited by Conrad Wright. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1992. 974.4 M38W The Revolutionary War Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800. Compiled by Carol Sue Humphrey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. R 973.3 HUMPHREY Tocqueville, Alexis de, (1805-1859). Democracy in America. 2 vols. The Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen, now further corrected and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley; forward by Harold J. Laski. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1945. 320 97 T56D Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2002. 973.3 WOOD FOR A BROADER BACKGROUND Documents of American History. Edited by Henry Steele Commager and Milton Cantor. 10th ed. 2 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. R 973 C73D Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. 973 J63H Morison, Samuel Eliot. A Concise History of the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 973 M82G Websites The Massachusetts Historical Society Home of the Adams Papers http://www.masshist.org Check out their homepage links to information on the Adams family. See photographic copies of the original hand written letters between Abigail and John (with accompanying typescripts). Adams National Historic Site Quincy, Massachusetts http://www.nps.gov/adam HBO, Host of the John Adams series http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams Make sure you check the horizontal frame at the bottom of the page. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin http://www.yale.edu/franklinpapers The Thomas Jefferson Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/index.html ALSO http://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/ The Papers of George Washington http://gwpapers.virginia.edu ALSO http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/ The Founding Fathers http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html The American Revolution http://www.americanrevolution.org Archiving Early America http://earlyamerica.com Journals of the Continental Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwjc.html 7 April 2008 (revised) vea Newton Free Library Newton, Mass.