Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney

JOHN ADAMS

John Adams, by David McCullough. S&S, 2001.
John Adams, by Page Smith. Doubleday, 1962.
John Adams, by John Patrick Diggins. Times, 2003.
John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words. H&R, 1973.
John Adams: A Life, by John Ferling. Univ. of Tennessee, 1992.
America's Lawyer Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office, ed by Norman Gross. AMAML, 2004.

ABIGAIL ADAMS

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams, by Lynne Withey. Free Press, 1981
Abigail Adams: A Biography, by Phyllis Lee Levin. St. Martin's Press, 1987.
John and Abigail Adams: Portrait of a Marriage, by Edith B. Gelles. Morrow, 2009
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail & John Adams. Belknap, 2007.

Adams Family

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness, by Jack Shepherd. LB, 1975
America's First Dynasty:The Adamses, 1735-1918, by Richard Brookhiser. Free Press, 2002
Cannibals of the Heart: A Personal Biography of Louisa Catherine & John Quincy Adams , by Jack Shepherd. M-H, 1980
The Adams Women: Abigail & and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters, by Paul C. Nagel. Oxford, 1987
Samuel Adams: A Life, by Ira Stoll. Free Press, 2009.
John Quincy Adams, by Robert V. Remini. Holt, 2002

Adams and Jefferson

Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue, by Merrill D. Peterson. Univ. of GA, 1976.
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling. Oxford, 2004.
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800, by Bernard A. Weisberger. Morrow, 2000.
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, by Gore Vidal. Yale University, 2003.
Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism, by Susan Dunn. HM, 2004.
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800--America's First Presidential Campaign, by Edward J. Larson. Free Press, 2007.

Adams and His World

John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. LB, 1950.
John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution, by James H. Hutson. Univ. Press of KY, 1980.
John Adams: Party of One, by James L. Grant. FSG, 2005.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis. Vintage, 2002, 2000.
Passionate Sage: John Adams and America's Original Intentions, by Joseph J. Ellis. Norton, 1993.
Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence & the Men Who signed It, by David Freeman Hawke. Viking, 1976.
The Boston Massacre, by Hiller B. Zobel. Norton, 1970.
The Great Upheaval: American and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788--1800, by Jay Winik. Harper, 2007.
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, by Pauline Maier. Knopf, 1997.
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph J. Ellis. Knopf, 2007.
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the American Revolution, by John E. Ferling. Oxford, 2000.
Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers, by Gary A. Kowlaski. United Tribes, 2008.
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding, by Darren Staloff. H&W, 2005.
Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison, by I. Bernard Cohen. Norton, 1995.

Media

John Adams (HBO). HBO Video, 2008. [DVD John].
John and Abigail Adams (The American Experience). PBS Home Video, 2005. [DVD 973.44092 JOHN]
The Adams Chronicles (mini-series). Acorn, 2008, 1976. [DVD Adams.
1776. (pictured below, with William Daniels as John Adams). Columbia Pictures 2002, 1972 [DVD 1776] .
Founding Brothers. HBO Video, 2008. [DVD 973.4092 Founding].
America at War: The Revolutionary War. A&E, 2007. [DVD 973.33 America].
The American President. Disc 2. Warner Home Video. [DVD 973.99 American 2].

Fiction

Those Who Love, by Irving Stone. Doubleday, 1965
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers, by Barbara Hambly. Bantam, 2007.

Websites

Biography from The White House
Biography from Wikipedia
Biography from Answers.com
Biography from Colonial Hall
State of the Union Addresses of John Adams from The Literature Page
John Adams Papers at The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
Visit the Birthplace of John Adams (Adams National Historical Site)

Created and maintained by: Lynne M. Kennedy.

© Copyright 2009, Sachem Public Library. All rights reserved.

631 588-5024
sachemlibrary.org