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John Adams Books
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John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.09 — 379,347 ratings — published 2001
First Family: Abigail and John Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,576 ratings — published 2010
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,738 ratings — published 2000
John Adams: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,346 ratings — published 1992
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,410 ratings — published 1840
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,130 ratings — published 1993
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,875 ratings — published 2017
Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,014 ratings — published 2011
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,707 ratings — published 2004
Those Rebels, John & Tom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.99 — 612 ratings — published 2012
John Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.36 — 73 ratings — published 1962
John Quincy Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,802 ratings — published 2012
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,721 ratings — published 1981
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,058 ratings — published 2007
John Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.81 — 527 ratings — published 2003
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,133 ratings — published 2006
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,497 ratings — published 2012
John Adams and the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.41 — 94 ratings — published 1950
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.60 — 303 ratings — published 2002
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,923 ratings — published 1997
John Adams: Party of One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 4.08 — 415 ratings — published 2005
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.93 — 190 ratings — published 2000
Abigail Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-adams)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,795 ratings — published 2009
The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to be Intimidated" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.25 — 99 ratings — published 2024
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.97 — 930 ratings — published 2008
Thomas Jefferson on Wine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.81 — 105 ratings — published 2006
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,982 ratings — published 2020
The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.90 — 102 ratings — published 1990
Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants. Vol. II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.69 — 32 ratings — published 1986
Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.56 — 39 ratings — published 1995
A JEFFERSON PROFILE, AS REVEALED IN HIS LETTERS, SELECTED AND ARRANGED. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Story of the Declaration of Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1954
Jefferson and Madison on the Separation of Church and State (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.27 — 15 ratings — published 2004
The War of the Revolution, Vol 2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.71 — 14 ratings — published 1952
The War of the Revolutiom - Volume I
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published 1952
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It (Bloomsbury, 2)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.23 — 517 ratings — published 2015
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.93 — 313 ratings — published 1987
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,648 ratings — published 2017
Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.32 — 352 ratings — published 1957
William Clark and the Shaping of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.90 — 116 ratings — published 2004
The American Heritage history of the Congress of the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1975
Lee: A Biography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.15 — 152 ratings — published 1965
A Marked Man (An Abigail Adams Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.92 — 378 ratings — published 2010
The Ninth Daughter (Abigail Adams #1)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,158 ratings — published 2009
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke (Satucket #3)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,886 ratings — published 2010
Sup with the Devil (Abigail Adams #3)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.90 — 255 ratings — published 2011
The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,146 ratings — published 2017
Origin of the American Revolution: 1759-1766 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 3.50 — 14 ratings — published 1961
GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 1766-1775 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-adams)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected {George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson}, not a one had professed a belief in Christianity...
When the war was over and the victory over our enemies won, and the blessings and happiness of liberty and peace were secured, the Constitution was framed and God was neglected. He was not merely forgotten. He was absolutely voted out of the Constitution. The proceedings, as published by Thompson, the secretary, and the history of the day, show that the question was gravely debated whether God should be in the Constitution or not, and after a solemn debate he was deliberately voted out of it.... There is not only in the theory of our government no recognition of God's laws and sovereignty, but its practical operation, its administration, has been conformable to its theory. Those who have been called to administer the government have not been men making any public profession of Christianity... Washington was a man of valor and wisdom. He was esteemed by the whole world as a great and good man; but he was not a professing Christian...
[Sermon by Reverend Bill Wilson (Episcopal) in October 1831, as published in the Albany Daily Advertiser the same month it was made]”
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When the war was over and the victory over our enemies won, and the blessings and happiness of liberty and peace were secured, the Constitution was framed and God was neglected. He was not merely forgotten. He was absolutely voted out of the Constitution. The proceedings, as published by Thompson, the secretary, and the history of the day, show that the question was gravely debated whether God should be in the Constitution or not, and after a solemn debate he was deliberately voted out of it.... There is not only in the theory of our government no recognition of God's laws and sovereignty, but its practical operation, its administration, has been conformable to its theory. Those who have been called to administer the government have not been men making any public profession of Christianity... Washington was a man of valor and wisdom. He was esteemed by the whole world as a great and good man; but he was not a professing Christian...
[Sermon by Reverend Bill Wilson (Episcopal) in October 1831, as published in the Albany Daily Advertiser the same month it was made]”
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“Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictums of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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