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Brown, Ralph A. The Presidency of John Adams. Topeka: University Press of Kansas, 1975.

Butterfield, Lyman H. et al., eds. The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, four vols. (1961). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961

Ellis, Joseph J. Passionate Sage, The Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.

Gibbs, George. Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. (1846; reprint, B. Franklin 1971).

Handler, Edward. America and Europe in the Political Thought of John Adams. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

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

Shaw, Peter. The Character of John Adams. New York: Norton, 1977.

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