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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox

Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes}

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years [1-volume abridged edition]

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735–1918

A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness

The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Descent From Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power

Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers

Religion in American Life: A Short History

Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership

Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

They Have Killed Papa Dead! The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance

Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life

The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream

The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide

Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City

Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age

Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America

Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 1 of 2: 1858-1891

The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 3: Prose 1860-1920

Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan

Henry Adams and the American experiment (The Library of American biography)

"The Best Men": Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age

Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C.

District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History

The Letters of Henry Adams [all volumes]

The United States in 1800: Henry Adams Revisited

A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic (United States Capitol Historical Society)

Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate

The suspension of Henry Adams; a study of manner and matter

Lebendiges politisches Erbe : freiheitliches Gedankengut von Burke bis Santayana; 1790 - 1958

Virgin of Chartres: An Intellectual and Psychological History of the Work of Henry Adams.

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John Adams by David McCullough
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson
The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger	quoted on Whig Party
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by J. W. Burrow
The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E. Meyer	mentioned
Black Hills by Dan Simmons — not in English Common Knowledge
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes} by Carl Sandburg
The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons
The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901 by Matthew Josephson
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years [1-volume abridged edition] by Carl Sandburg
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker
The White Darkness by David Grann
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. Nash
Theodore Roosevelt by Nathan Miller
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735–1918 by Richard Brookhiser	a Puritan ancestor of John Adams
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Garry Wills
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd
The Blockade: Runners and Raiders by William C. Davis
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple
Descent From Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family by Paul C. Nagel
A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann
Buckley: The Right Word by William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermath by Richard W. Murphy
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O'Brien
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers by Brooke Allen
Religion in American Life: A Short History by Jon Butler
Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Louise Hall Tharp
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership by E. Digby Baltzell
Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons by Edward J. Renehan Jr.	mentioned
Adams: An American Dynasty by Francis Russell
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown
They Have Killed Papa Dead! The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance by Anthony Pitch
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra
The Adams Family by James Truslow Adams
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s by H. W. Brands
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers by Merriam-Webster
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich
The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream by Kirkpatrick Sale
Essays in Biography by Joseph Epstein
Henry Adams: The Middle Years by Ernest Samuels
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age by Louis Auchincloss
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency by William C. Harris
Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels
Conservatism: Dream and Reality by Robert Nisbet
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition by Paul Lauter
The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy by Sean Kingsley
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide by Christina Nielsen
Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City by Kurt C. Schlichting
Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age by Otto Friedrich
Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America by Cecelia Tichi
Henry Adams by R. P. Blackmur
Lincoln's War Cabinet by Burton Jesse Hendrick
Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 1 of 2: 1858-1891 by Henry Adams
The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 3: Prose 1860-1920 by Sacvan Bercovitch
Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan by Craig L. Symonds
Henry Adams and the American experiment (The Library of American biography) by David R. Contosta
The Young Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels
Henry Adams: The Major Phase by Ernest Samuels
The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams by Eugenia Kaledin
John Hay: From Poetry to Politics by Tyler Dennett
"The Best Men": Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age by John G. Sproat
Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. by Sarah Luria
District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History by David L. Lewis
Henry Adams: scientific historian by William H. Jordy
The Letters of Henry Adams [all volumes] by Henry Adams
The Gilded Age by Judith Freeman Clark
The mind and art of Henry Adams by J. C. Levenson
The United States in 1800: Henry Adams Revisited by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.
A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic (United States Capitol Historical Society) by Donald R. Kennon
Records of early Riverton and district by James C. Thomson
Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate by Reed Whittemore
The suspension of Henry Adams; a study of manner and matter by Vern Wagner
Famous historians by Frank Ernest Hill
Henry Adams & the Need to Know by William Merrill Decker
Lebendiges politisches Erbe : freiheitliches Gedankengut von Burke bis Santayana; 1790 - 1958 by Russell Kirk
Virgin of Chartres: An Intellectual and Psychological History of the Work of Henry Adams. by Joseph F. Byrnes

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Henry Brooks Adams, who used the nom de plume Frances Snow Compton, was the son of ambassador Charles Francis Adams, brother of general Charles Francis Adams, Jr. and the writer Brooks Adams, and grandson of John Quincy Adams. He was also a member of the Five of Hearts, which included his wife Clover Adams, Secretary of State John Hay, Clara Stone Hay, and Clarence King.