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Edith Gelles is a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford where she has also taught since 1983. As a historian of early America and women's history, she has written biographies of Abigail Adams and, most recently edited the Library of America's Letters of Abigail Adams. Her previous books include a prize-winner from the American Historical Association and a finalist for the prestigious George Washington Prize. Educated at Cornell, Yale and the University of California, Irvine, she grew up in Lake Placid, New York.

Gelles has published numerous articles and reviews that have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Early American Studies, White House History, the American Quarterly, the Journal of Early American History, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as others. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has appeared on several TV documentaries about the Adamses and her work.

She has two sons, Adam, professor of computer science at Princeton and Noah, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and four grandchildren. She lives in Palo Alto with her husband Michael Weiss and poodle, Teddy. She swims with R

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Secondary Sources

Adams Book List

The following list is selection of the many books available about the Adams family. It is organized chronologically by family members.

John Adams (1735–1826)

John Adams: Party of One, by James Grant (2005).

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, by John Ferling (2004).

John Adams, by David McCullough (2001).

Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution, by John Ferling (2000).

John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty, by C. Bradley Thompson (1998).

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, by Joseph J. Ellis (1993).

John Adams: A Life, by John Ferling (1992).

The Boston Massacre, by Hiller B. Zobel (1970).

The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, by Richard B. Morris (1965).

Abigail Smith Adams (1744–1818)

Abigail Adams, by Woody Holton (2009).

Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, by Edith B. Gelles (1995).

Abigail Adams: A Biography, by Phyllis Lee Levin (1987).

Abigail Adams (1765–1813)

Colonel William Smith and Lady: The Romance of Washington’s Aide and Young Abigail Adams, by Katharine Metcalf Roof (1929).

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)

The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adam