San Antonio College Library

The correspondence between Abigail and John Adams that concentrates on the years of the Revolution.

A history of four generations of one of America's most prominent families, told largely in their own words from diaries and letters.

A biography of the revolutionary, founding father, and second president of the United States explores his origins as a son of Massachusetts who crafted himself into an uncompromisingly ethical politician and social reformer. John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever been more devoted to doing...

Study of the personal and political relationships between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson from 1775 to the day they both died, July 4, 1826.

In this biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams--the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams--and reveals how Adams' progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America. Kaplan draws on unpublished archival material to trace Adams' evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his years as Secretary...

V.1 1735-1784 -- v.2 1784-1826.

An intimate and candid portrait of the women of the Adams Family portrays how American females actually lived, and thought between 1750 and 1850.