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The following is a list and discussion of important scholarly resources relating to [[John Adams]].
==Biographies==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* Akers, Charles W. "John Adams" in Henry Graff, ed. (3rd ed. 2002). ''The Presidents: A Reference History''. [http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Washington-Johnson/Adams-John.html online]
* {{cite book |last=Chinard |first=Gilbert |date=1933 |title=Honest John Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Honest_John_Adams.html?id=lsUKAQAAIAAJ |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Little, Brown, and Company}}
* {{cite book |last=Diggins |first=John P. |date=2003 |title=John Adams |series=The American Presidents |editor-last=Schlesinger Jr. |editor-first=Arthur M. |publisher=Time Books |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-8050-6937-2 |author-link=John Patrick Diggins |editor-link=Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.}}
* {{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Joseph J. |date=1993 |title=Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams |url=https://books.google.com/?id=dFrb8fGNnUEC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=New York, NY |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0393311333}}
* {{cite book |last=Ferling |first=John E. |date=1992 |title=John Adams: A Life |url=https://books.google.com/?id=yQ6NDVYZ7U0C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Knoxville, TN |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=0870497308 |author-link=John E. Ferling}}
* {{cite book |last=Grant |first=James |date=2005 |title=John Adams: Party of One |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/John_Adams_Party_of_One.html?id=iUR3AAAAMAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=978-03741-1314-8 |author-link=James Grant (finance)}}
* {{cite book |last=McCullough |first=David |date=2001 |title=John Adams|url=https://books.google.com/?id=E9TOxypjZY4C&pg=PA144-IA8#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=New York, NY |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1416575887 |author-link=David McCullough}}
* Morse, John Torrey. ''John Adams''. (1899) old scholarly biography [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=inY7AQAAMAAJ online free]
* Ryerson, Richard Alan, ed. (2001). ''John Adams and the Founding of the Republic''
* Ryerson, Richard Alan (2016). ''John Adams's Republic: The One, the Few, and the Many'' 555 pp
* {{cite book |last=Shaw |first=Peter |date=1975 |title=The Character of John Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_character_of_John_Adams.html?id=1ImaAAAAIAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0393008568}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Page |date=1962a |title=John Adams |volume=Volume I, 1735–1784 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/John_Adams.html?id=qcUKAQAAIAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |author-link=Page Smith}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Page |date=1962b |title=John Adams |volume=Volume II, 1784–1826 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/John_Adams_1784_1826.html?id=lVwqAAAAYAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc.}}
* Waldstreicher, David, ed. (2013). ''A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams'', {{ISBN|978-0470655580}}
{{refend}}
==Presidency and Federalism==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* Brown, Ralph A. (2004). ''The Presidency of John Adams.''
* {{cite book |last1=Elkins |first1=Stanley M. |last2=McKitrick |first2=Eric |year=1993 |title=The Age of Federalism |url=https://books.google.com/?id=9RyG29bER3QC&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Oxford, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0195068904}}
* Freeman, Joanne B. (2001). ''Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic.''
* {{cite book |last=Hakim |first=Joy |year=2003 |title=The New Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaJFp7aV7QwC&pg=PA97 |location=Oxford, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=019515326X|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407135655/http://books.google.com/books?id=SaJFp7aV7QwC&pg=PA97|archivedate=April 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}
* {{cite book |last=Hoadley |first=John F. |year=1986 |title=Origins of American Political Parties: 1789–1803 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |location=Lexington, Kentucky |isbn=978-0813153209}}
* {{cite book |last=Kurtz |first=Stephen G. |year=1957 |title=The Presidency of John Adams: The Collapse of Federalism, 1795–1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Presidency_of_John_Adams.html?id=2xZ3AAAAMAAJ |location=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press}}
* {{cite book|ref=Miller |last=Miller |first=John C. |date=1960 |title=The Federalist Era: 1789–1801 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Federalist_Era_1789_1801.html?id=FsZxAAAAMAAJ |isbn=978-0061330278}}
* White, Leonard Duppe. (1956). ''The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History'', {{ISBN|978-0313201011}}
{{refend}}
==Books on the Founders==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Joseph J. |date=2003 |title=Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lsPztgGkYYgC |location=New York, NY |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-1400077687}}
* {{cite book |last=Holmes |first=David L. |year=2006 |title=The Faiths of the Founding Fathers |url=https://books.google.com/?id=Ml9GsreUwEAC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195300925}}
* {{cite book |last=Wood |first=Gordon S. |year=2006 |title=Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uOovRxek5AIC&pg=PA54 |location=London, UK |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=1594200939 |author-link=Gordon S. Wood}}
{{refend}}
==Political thought==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* Haraszti, Zoltan (1952). ''John Adams and the Prophets of Progress''. Incisive analysis of John Adams's political comments on numerous authors through examining his marginalia in his copies of their books.
* Howe, John R. Jr. (1966). ''The Changing Political Thought of John Adams''
* Morse, Anson D. "The Politics of John Adams." ''American Historical Review'' 4.2 (1899): 292-312. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1833557 online free]
{{refend}}
==Other specialized studies==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Julian Parks |last2=Gawalt |first2=Gerard W. |title=The Declaration of Independence: the evolution of the text |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fAkaAQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Library of Congress in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation|isbn=978-0844409801}}
* {{cite book |last=Chernow |first=Ron |year=2004 |title=Alexander Hamilton |url=https://books.google.com/?id=4z5eL5SGjEoC&pg=PT14#v=onepage&q&f=false |chapter=29 |isbn=978-110120085-8 |location=London, UK |publisher=Penguin Books |author-link=Ron Chernow}}
* {{cite book |last=Herring |first=George C. |year=2008 |title=From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=fODT-qOVoiIC&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Oxford, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0199743770}}
* {{cite book |last=Maier |first=Pauline |year=1998 |title=American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nm4rAQAAIAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0679779087}}
* {{cite book |last=Moore |first=George |date=1866 |title=Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohsEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 |location=New York, NY |publisher=D. Appleton & Co.}}
* {{cite book|ref=Vinton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IV8hPxRANm8C&pg=PA298|title=The Vinton Memorial|author =Vinton, John Adams|publisher=S.K. Whipple |year=1858}}
{{refend}}
==Primary sources==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book|ref=Adams |last=Adams |first=John |last2=Adams |first2=Charles Francis |year= 1851 |title=The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography, continued. Diary. Essays and controversial papers of the Revolution |volume=3 |series=The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States |publisher=Little, Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392}}
* Butterfield, L. H. et al., eds., ''The Adams Papers'' (1961– ). Multivolume letterpress edition of all letters to and from major members of the Adams family, plus their diaries; still incomplete. {{cite web|url=http://www.masshist.org/adams_editorial |title=The Adams Family Papers Editorial Project |publisher=Masshist.org |accessdate=March 2, 2010}}
** [https://founders.archives.gov/about "Founders Online" searchable edition]
* Butterfield, L. H., ed. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?collection=1165 ''Adams Family Correspondence.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press
* {{cite book |editor=Cappon, Lester J. |title=The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams |year=1959 |isbn=0807842303 |location=Chapel Hill, NC |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press}}
* Carey, George W., ed. ''The Political Writings of John Adams''. (2001)
* John A. Schutz and Douglass Adair, eds. ''Spur of Fame, The Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805–1813'' (1966) {{ISBN|978-0865972872}}
* C. Bradley Thompson, ed. ''Revolutionary Writings of John Adams,'' (2001) {{ISBN|978-0865972858}}
* Adams, John, (1774) ''Novanglus; or, A History of the Dispute with America''.
* Hogan, Margaret and C. James Taylor, eds. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057050 ''My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
* Richardson, James D. ed. ''A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents'' (1897), reprints his major messages and reports.
* Taylor, Robert J. et al., eds. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?collection=1340 ''Papers of John Adams.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press
* Wroth, L. Kinvin and Hiller B. Zobel, eds. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674522503 ''The Legal Papers of John Adams.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press
{{refend}}
==Analysis==
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?49975-1/joseph-ellis-john-adams ''Booknotes'' interview with Joseph Ellis on ''Passionate Sage'', September 5, 1993], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?159783-1/john-adams Presentation by McCullough on ''John Adams'' at the Library of Congress, April 24, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?166023-10/john-adams Presentation by McCullough on ''John Adams'' at the National Book Festival, September 8, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Adams' grandson [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]] edited the first two volumes of ''The Works of John Adams, Esq., Second President of the United States''. These were published between 1850 and 1856 by Charles C. Little and James Brown in Boston. The first seven chapters were produced by John Quincy Adams.<ref name="Ferling, Select Bibliography">Ferling, Select Bibliography.</ref>
The premier modern biography was ''Honest John Adams'', a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard, who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Jefferson. For a generation, Chinard's work was regarded as the best life of Adams, and it is still an important text in illustrating the themes of Adams' biographical and historical scholarship. Following the opening of the Adams family papers in the 1950s, [[Page Smith]] published the first major biography to use these previously inaccessible primary sources; his biography won a 1962 [[Bancroft Prize]] but was criticized for its scanting of Adams' intellectual life and its diffuseness. In 1975, Peter Shaw published ''The Character of John Adams,'' a thematic biography noted for its psychological insight into Adams' life. The 1992 character study by [[Joseph Ellis]], ''Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams,'' was Ellis's first major publishing success and remains one of the most useful and insightful studies of Adams' personality. In 1992, the Revolutionary War historian and biographer [[John E. Ferling]] published his acclaimed ''John Adams: A Life'', also noted for its psychological sensitivity.<ref name="Ferling, Select Bibliography"/> [[David McCullough]] authored the 2001 biography ''[[John Adams (book)|John Adams]]'', which won various awards and was the basis for a 2008 [[John Adams (miniseries)|TV miniseries]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.courant.com/2008-03-11/features/0803100434_1_paul-giamatti-second-president-bartlett-giamatti |title=HBO miniseries gives John Adams his due |work=The Courant |first=Roger |last=Catlin |publisher=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |date=March 11, 2008 |accessdate=May 10, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510144055/http://articles.courant.com/2008-03-11/features/0803100434_1_paul-giamatti-second-president-bartlett-giamatti |archivedate=May 10, 2014 }}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Ferling |first=John E. |title=John Adams: A Life |url=https://books.google.com/?id=yQ6NDVYZ7U0C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false |year=1992 |location=Knoxville, TN |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=0-87049-730-8 |author-link=John E. Ferling}}
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The following is a list and discussion of important scholarly resources relating to [[John Adams]].
==Biographies==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* Akers, Charles W. "John Adams" in Henry Graff, ed. (3rd ed. 2002). ''The Presidents: A Reference History''. [http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Washington-Johnson/Adams-John.html online]
* {{cite book |last=Chinard |first=Gilbert |date=1933 |title=Honest John Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Honest_John_Adams.html?id=lsUKAQAAIAAJ |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Little, Brown, and Company}}
* {{cite book |last=Diggins |first=John P. |date=2003 |title=John Adams |series=The American Presidents |editor-last=Schlesinger Jr. |editor-first=Arthur M. |publisher=Time Books |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-8050-6937-2 |author-link=John Patrick Diggins |editor-link=Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.}}
* {{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Joseph J. |date=1993 |title=Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams |url=https://books.google.com/?id=dFrb8fGNnUEC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=New York, NY |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0393311333}}
* {{cite book |last=Ferling |first=John E. |date=1992 |title=John Adams: A Life |url=https://books.google.com/?id=yQ6NDVYZ7U0C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Knoxville, TN |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=0870497308 |author-link=John E. Ferling}}
* {{cite book |last=Grant |first=James |date=2005 |title=John Adams: Party of One |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/John_Adams_Party_of_One.html?id=iUR3AAAAMAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=978-03741-1314-8 |author-link=James Grant (finance)}}
* {{cite book |last=McCullough |first=David |date=2001 |title=John Adams|url=https://books.google.com/?id=E9TOxypjZY4C&pg=PA144-IA8#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=New York, NY |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1416575887 |author-link=David McCullough}}
* Morse, John Torrey. ''John Adams''. (1899) old scholarly biography [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=inY7AQAAMAAJ online free]
* Ryerson, Richard Alan, ed. (2001). ''John Adams and the Founding of the Republic''
* Ryerson, Richard Alan (2016). ''John Adams's Republic: The One, the Few, and the Many'' 555 pp
* {{cite book |last=Shaw |first=Peter |date=1975 |title=The Character of John Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_character_of_John_Adams.html?id=1ImaAAAAIAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0393008568}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Page |date=1962a |title=John Adams |volume=Volume I, 1735–1784 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/John_Adams.html?id=qcUKAQAAIAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |author-link=Page Smith}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Page |date=1962b |title=John Adams |volume=Volume II, 1784–1826 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/John_Adams_1784_1826.html?id=lVwqAAAAYAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc.}}
* Waldstreicher, David, ed. (2013). ''A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams'', {{ISBN|978-0470655580}}
{{refend}}
==Presidency and Federalism==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* Brown, Ralph A. (2004). ''The Presidency of John Adams.''
* {{cite book |last1=Elkins |first1=Stanley M. |last2=McKitrick |first2=Eric |year=1993 |title=The Age of Federalism |url=https://books.google.com/?id=9RyG29bER3QC&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Oxford, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0195068904}}
* Freeman, Joanne B. (2001). ''Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic.''
* {{cite book |last=Hakim |first=Joy |year=2003 |title=The New Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaJFp7aV7QwC&pg=PA97 |location=Oxford, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=019515326X|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407135655/http://books.google.com/books?id=SaJFp7aV7QwC&pg=PA97|archivedate=April 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}
* {{cite book |last=Hoadley |first=John F. |year=1986 |title=Origins of American Political Parties: 1789–1803 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |location=Lexington, Kentucky |isbn=978-0813153209}}
* {{cite book |last=Kurtz |first=Stephen G. |year=1957 |title=The Presidency of John Adams: The Collapse of Federalism, 1795–1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Presidency_of_John_Adams.html?id=2xZ3AAAAMAAJ |location=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press}}
* {{cite book|ref=Miller |last=Miller |first=John C. |date=1960 |title=The Federalist Era: 1789–1801 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Federalist_Era_1789_1801.html?id=FsZxAAAAMAAJ |isbn=978-0061330278}}
* White, Leonard Duppe. (1956). ''The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History'', {{ISBN|978-0313201011}}
{{refend}}
==Books on the Founders==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Joseph J. |date=2003 |title=Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lsPztgGkYYgC |location=New York, NY |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-1400077687}}
* {{cite book |last=Holmes |first=David L. |year=2006 |title=The Faiths of the Founding Fathers |url=https://books.google.com/?id=Ml9GsreUwEAC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195300925}}
* {{cite book |last=Wood |first=Gordon S. |year=2006 |title=Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uOovRxek5AIC&pg=PA54 |location=London, UK |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=1594200939 |author-link=Gordon S. Wood}}
{{refend}}
==Political thought==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* Haraszti, Zoltan (1952). ''John Adams and the Prophets of Progress''. Incisive analysis of John Adams's political comments on numerous authors through examining his marginalia in his copies of their books.
* Howe, John R. Jr. (1966). ''The Changing Political Thought of John Adams''
* Morse, Anson D. "The Politics of John Adams." ''American Historical Review'' 4.2 (1899): 292-312. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1833557 online free]
{{refend}}
==Other specialized studies==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Julian Parks |last2=Gawalt |first2=Gerard W. |title=The Declaration of Independence: the evolution of the text |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fAkaAQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Library of Congress in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation|isbn=978-0844409801}}
* {{cite book |last=Chernow |first=Ron |year=2004 |title=Alexander Hamilton |url=https://books.google.com/?id=4z5eL5SGjEoC&pg=PT14#v=onepage&q&f=false |chapter=29 |isbn=978-110120085-8 |location=London, UK |publisher=Penguin Books |author-link=Ron Chernow}}
* {{cite book |last=Herring |first=George C. |year=2008 |title=From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=fODT-qOVoiIC&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Oxford, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0199743770}}
* {{cite book |last=Maier |first=Pauline |year=1998 |title=American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nm4rAQAAIAAJ |location=New York, NY |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0679779087}}
* {{cite book |last=Moore |first=George |date=1866 |title=Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohsEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 |location=New York, NY |publisher=D. Appleton & Co.}}
* {{cite book|ref=Vinton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IV8hPxRANm8C&pg=PA298|title=The Vinton Memorial|author =Vinton, John Adams|publisher=S.K. Whipple |year=1858}}
{{refend}}
==Primary sources==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book|ref=Adams |last=Adams |first=John |last2=Adams |first2=Charles Francis |year= 1851 |title=The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography, continued. Diary. Essays and controversial papers of the Revolution |volume=3 |series=The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States |publisher=Little, Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392}}
* Butterfield, L. H. et al., eds., ''The Adams Papers'' (1961– ). Multivolume letterpress edition of all letters to and from major members of the Adams family, plus their diaries; still incomplete. {{cite web|url=http://www.masshist.org/adams_editorial |title=The Adams Family Papers Editorial Project |publisher=Masshist.org |accessdate=March 2, 2010}}
** [https://founders.archives.gov/about "Founders Online" searchable edition]
* Butterfield, L. H., ed. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?collection=1165 ''Adams Family Correspondence.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press
* {{cite book |editor=Cappon, Lester J. |title=The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams |year=1959 |isbn=0807842303 |location=Chapel Hill, NC |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press}}
* Carey, George W., ed. ''The Political Writings of John Adams''. (2001)
* John A. Schutz and Douglass Adair, eds. ''Spur of Fame, The Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805–1813'' (1966) {{ISBN|978-0865972872}}
* C. Bradley Thompson, ed. ''Revolutionary Writings of John Adams,'' (2001) {{ISBN|978-0865972858}}
* Adams, John, (1774) ''Novanglus; or, A History of the Dispute with America''.
* Hogan, Margaret and C. James Taylor, eds. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057050 ''My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
* Richardson, James D. ed. ''A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents'' (1897), reprints his major messages and reports.
* Taylor, Robert J. et al., eds. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?collection=1340 ''Papers of John Adams.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press
* Wroth, L. Kinvin and Hiller B. Zobel, eds. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674522503 ''The Legal Papers of John Adams.''] Cambridge: Harvard University Press
{{refend}}
==Analysis==
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?49975-1/joseph-ellis-john-adams ''Booknotes'' interview with Joseph Ellis on ''Passionate Sage'', September 5, 1993], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?159783-1/john-adams Presentation by McCullough on ''John Adams'' at the Library of Congress, April 24, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?166023-10/john-adams Presentation by McCullough on ''John Adams'' at the National Book Festival, September 8, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Adams' grandson [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]] edited the first two volumes of ''The Works of John Adams, Esq., Second President of the United States''. These were published between 1850 and 1856 by Charles C. Little and James Brown in Boston. The first seven chapters were produced by John Quincy Adams.<ref name="Ferling, Select Bibliography">Ferling, Select Bibliography.</ref>
The premier modern biography was ''Honest John Adams'', a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard, who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Jefferson. For a generation, Chinard's work was regarded as the best life of Adams, and it is still an important text in illustrating the themes of Adams' biographical and historical scholarship. Following the opening of the Adams family papers in the 1950s, [[Page Smith]] published the first major biography to use these previously inaccessible primary sources; his biography won a 1962 [[Bancroft Prize]] but was criticized for its scanting of Adams' intellectual life and its diffuseness. In 1975, Peter Shaw published ''The Character of John Adams,'' a thematic biography noted for its psychological insight into Adams' life. The 1992 character study by [[Joseph Ellis]], ''Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams,'' was Ellis's first major publishing success and remains one of the most useful and insightful studies of Adams' personality. In 1992, the Revolutionary War historian and biographer [[John E. Ferling]] published his acclaimed ''John Adams: A Life'', also noted for its psychological sensitivity.<ref name="Ferling, Select Bibliography"/> [[David McCullough]] authored the 2001 biography ''[[John Adams (book)|John Adams]]'', which won various awards and was the basis for a 2008 [[John Adams (miniseries)|TV miniseries]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.courant.com/2008-03-11/features/0803100434_1_paul-giamatti-second-president-bartlett-giamatti |title=HBO miniseries gives John Adams his due |work=The Courant |first=Roger |last=Catlin |publisher=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |date=March 11, 2008 |accessdate=May 10, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510144055/http://articles.courant.com/2008-03-11/features/0803100434_1_paul-giamatti-second-president-bartlett-giamatti |archivedate=May 10, 2014 }}</ref>
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Ferling |first=John E. |title=John Adams: A Life |url=https://books.google.com/?id=yQ6NDVYZ7U0C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false |year=1992 |location=Knoxville, TN |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=0-87049-730-8 |author-link=John E. Ferling}}
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