Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31133-4.
Ferling, John E. (1992). John Adams: A Life. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-730-8.
McCullough, David (2001). John Adams. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-7588-7.
Morse, John Torey (1884). John Adams. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company. OCLC 926779205.
Smith, Page (1962a). John Adams. Vol. I, 1735–1784. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. ISBN 9780837123486. OCLC 852986601.
Smith, Page (1962b). John Adams. Vol. II, 1784–1826. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8371-2348-6. OCLC 852986620.
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 978-0-8444-0980-1.
Brookhiser, Richard (2002). America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-4209-7.
Burns, James MacGregor (2013). Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-02490-9.
Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton. London, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-101-20085-8.
Elkins, Stanley M.; McKitrick, Eric (1993). The Age of Federalism. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506890-0.
Ellis, Joseph J. 