Biographical

• Abrams, Jeanne E. "John Adams: An American in Paris," ch. 1 ofA View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe (New York University Press, 2021) pp. 23–54.ISBN 9781479802876
• Akers, Charles W. "John Adams" in Henry Graff, ed. (3rd ed. 2002).The Presidents: A Reference History.online
• Bernstein, Richard B.The Education of John Adams (Oxford University Press, 2020).^{[ISBN missing]}
• Chinard, Gilbert (1933).Honest John Adams. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
• Diggins, John P. (2003).Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. (ed.).John Adams. The American Presidents. New York: Time Books.ISBN 0805069372.
• Ellis, Joseph J. (1993).Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.ISBN 0393311333.
• Ferling, John E. (1992).John Adams: A Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.ISBN 0870497308.
• Georgini, Sara.Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford University Press, 2019)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Grant, James (2005).John Adams: Party of One. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.ISBN 978-0374113148.
• Harness, Cheryl.The Revolutionary John Adams (National Geographic Books, 2006).^{[ISBN missing]}
• McCullough, David (2001).John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 144.ISBN 978-1416575887.
• Mara, Wil.John Adams (Marshall Cavendish, 2009).^{[ISBN missing]}
• Morse, John Torrey.John Adams. (1899) old scholarly biographyonline free
• Ryerson, Richard Alan, ed. (2001).John Adams and the Founding of the Republic^{[ISBN missing]}
• Ryerson, Richard Alan (2016).John Adams's Republic: The One, the Few, and the Many 555 pp^{[ISBN missing]}
• Shaw, Peter (1975).The Character of John Adams. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.ISBN 0393008568.
• Smith, Page (1962a).John Adams. Vol. I,1735–1784. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Smith, Page (1962b).John Adams. Vol. II,1784–1826. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.ISBN 978-0837123486.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Visser, Michael (2008)."Adams, John (1735–1826)". InHamowy, Ronald (ed.).The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage;Cato Institute. pp. 5–6.doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n4.ISBN 978-1412965804.LCCN 2008009151.OCLC 750831024.
• Waldstreicher, David, ed. (2013).A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams,ISBN 978-0470655580, emphasis on historiography

Vice Presidency, Presidency and Federalist Party

• Allen, Gardner Weld (1909).Our Naval War With France. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.OCLC 1202325., the Quasi-War of 1798–1800
• Bernstein, R. B. "President John Adams and Four Chief Justices"New York Law School Law Review 57 (2012): 441+.
• Brown, Ralph A.The Presidency of John Adams. (2004)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Dunn, Susan.Jefferson's second revolution: the election crisis of 1800 and the triumph of republicanism (2004).
• Elkins, Stanley M.; McKitrick, Eric (1993).The Age of Federalism. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN 0195068904.
• Ferling, JohnAdams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Oxford University Press, 2004).^{[ISBN missing]}
• Freeman, Joanne B. "The Election of 1800: A Study in the Logic of Political Change."Yale Law Journal 108.8 (1999) pp. 1959–1994.online
• Graber, Mark A. "Federalist or Friends of Adams: The Marshall Court and Party Politics."Studies in American Political Development 12.2 (1998): 229–266.online
• Heidenreich, Donald E. "Conspiracy Politics in the Election of 1796."New York History 92.3 (2011): 151–165.online
• Hoadley, John F. (1986).Origins of American Political Parties: 1789–1803. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky.ISBN 978-0813153209.
• Holder, Jean S. "The Sources of Presidential Power: John Adams and the Challenge to Executive Primacy."Political Science Quarterly 101.4 (1986): 601–616.online
• Kurtz, Stephen G. (1957).The Presidency of John Adams: The Collapse of Federalism, 1795–1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Kurtz, Stephen G. "The French Mission of 1799–1800: Concluding Chapter in the Statecraft of John Adams."Political Science Quarterly 80.4 (1965): 543–557.online
• Larson, Edward J.A magnificent catastrophe: the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign. (Simon and Schuster, 2007).^{[ISBN missing]}
• Lyon, E. Wilson (September 1940). "The Franco-American Convention of 1800".The Journal of Modern History.12 (3):305–333.doi:10.1086/236487.JSTOR 1874761.S2CID 144516482.
• Miller, John C. (1960).The Federalist Era: 1789–1801.ISBN 978-0061330278.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Miroff, Bruce. "John Adams' Classical Conception of the Executive."Presidential Studies Quarterly (1987): 365–382online.
• Murphy, William J. "John Adams: The Politics of the Additional Army, 1798–1800."New England Quarterly (1979): 234–249.online
• Ray, Thomas (Winter 1983). "'Not One Cent for Tribute': The Public Addresses and American Popular Reaction to the XYZ Affair, 1798–1799".Journal of the Early Republic.3 (4):389–412.doi:10.2307/3122881.JSTOR 3122881.
• Scherr, Arthur. "James Monroe and John Adams: An Unlikely “Friendship”."The Historian 67.3 (2005): 405–433.
• Sharp, James Roger.American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (Yale UP, 1993).^{[ISBN missing]}
• Sloan, Cliff, and David McKean.The great decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the battle for the Supreme Court (PublicAffairs, 2010).^{[ISBN missing]}
• Smith, James Morton. "President John Adams, Thomas Cooper, and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression."Mississippi Valley Historical Review 42.3 (1955): 438–465.online
• Stinchcombe, William (October 1977). "The Diplomacy of the WXYZ Affair".The William and Mary Quarterly.34 (4):590–617.doi:10.2307/2936184.JSTOR 2936184.
• Thompson, Harry C. "The Second Place in Rome: John Adams as Vice President."Presidential Studies Quarterly 10.2 (1980): 171–178.online
• Turner, Kathryn. "Midnight judges."University of Pennsylvania Law Review 109 (1960): 494+online.
• Turner, Kathryn. "The Appointment of Chief Justice Marshall."William and Mary Quarterly (1960): 144–163.online
• White, Leonard Duppe.The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History, (1956).ISBN 978-0313201011
• Wood, Gordon S. (2009).Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0195039146.

Books on the Founders

• Ellis, Joseph J. (2003).Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.ISBN 978-1400077687.
• Holmes, David L. (2006).The Faiths of the Founding Fathers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2.ISBN 978-0195300925.
• Wood, Gordon S. (2006).Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. London: Penguin Books. p. 54.ISBN 1594200939.

Political thought

• Fisher, Louis. "John Adams." inThe Presidents and the Constitution, Volume One (New York University Press, 2020) pp. 34–46.^{[ISBN missing]}
• Haraszti, Zoltan (1952).John Adams and the Prophets of Progress.^{[ISBN missing]}
• Howe, John R. Jr. (1966).The Changing Political Thought of John Adams^{[ISBN missing]}
• Morse, Anson D. "The Politics of John Adams."American Historical Review 4.2 (1899): 292–312.online free
• Rous, Sarah A. "Homo sum: John Adams Reads Terence."Classical World 113.3 (2020): 299–334.
• Scalia, Eugene. "John Adams, Legal Representation, and the 'Cancel Culture'."Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 44 (2021): 333+.

Other specialized studies

• Boyd, Julian Parks; Gawalt, Gerard W. (1999).The Declaration of Independence: the evolution of the text. Library of Congress in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.ISBN 978-0844409801.
• Chernow, Ron (2004)."29".Alexander Hamilton. London: Penguin Books.ISBN 978-1101200858.
• Herring, George C. (2008).From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 150.ISBN 978-0199743773.
• Holdzkom, Marianne.Remembering John Adams: The Second President in History, Memory and Popular Culture (McFarland, 2023)online.

• Maier, Pauline (1998).American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Vintage Books.ISBN 978-0679779087.
• Moore, George (1866).Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts. New York: D. Appleton & Co. p. 201.
• Morris, Richard B.The peacemakers: The great powers and American independence (1965) Treaty of Paris 1783^{[ISBN missing]}
• Vinton, John Adams (1858).The Vinton Memorial. S.K. Whipple. p. 298.

Primary sources

• Adams, John; Adams, Charles Francis (1851).The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography, continued. Diary. Essays and controversial papers of the Revolution. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States. Vol. 3. Little, Brown.
• Adams, John, and Abigail Adams.Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams (Courier Dover Publications, 2021).^{[ISBN missing]}
• 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."The Adams Family Papers Editorial Project". Masshist.org. RetrievedMarch 2, 2010.
  • "Founders Online" searchable edition
• Butterfield, L. H., ed.Adams Family Correspondence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
• Cappon, Lester J., ed. (1959).The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.ISBN 0807842303.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Carey, George W., ed.The Political Writings of John Adams. (2001)^{[ISBN missing]}
• 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.^{[ISBN missing]}
• Hogan, Margaret and C. James Taylor, eds.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.^{[ISBN missing]}
• Taylor, Robert J. et al., eds.Papers of John Adams. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
• Wroth, L. Kinvin and Hiller B. Zobel, eds.The Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

Analysis

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