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Thomas Adams may refer to: Politicians Thomas Adams (MP), Member of Parliament for Bedford Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1667/68), Lord Mayor of London Thomas Adams (politician) (1730–1788), Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress Thomas Boylston Adams (judge) (1772–1832), son of US president John Adams Thomas Boylston Adams (academic) (1910–1997), American writer, executive, and political candidate Thomas Burton Adams Jr. (1917–2006), American politician in Florida Thomas Adams (sheriff) (1804–1869), sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts Military Thomas Adams (British Army officer) (c. 1730–1764), British Army major, noted for his defense of the British position in Bengal in 1763 Sir Thomas Adams, 6th Baronet (1738–1770), naval officer Musicians Thomas Adams (organist, born 1785) (1785–1858), English organist and composer Thomas Adams (organist, born 1857) (1857–1918), English organist and composer Writers and publishers Thomas Adams (priest) (1583–1652), English priest and religious writer Thomas Adams (publisher) (died 1620), English bookseller and publisher Thomas Adams (writer) (c. 1633–1670), English religious writer Educators Thomas Sewall Adams (1873–1933), American economist and educator Thomas R. Adams (1921–2008), US educational figure, librarian and professor at Brown University Thomas Adams (classicist) (1884–1953), New Zealand professor of classical languages and cricketer Other people Thomas Adams (manufacturer and philanthropist) (1807–1873), English Nottingham lace manufacturer and philanthropist Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker) (1818–1905), American businessman Thomas Albert Smith Adams (1839–1888), American religious figure Thomas Adams (architect) (1871–1940), Scottish-born English pioneer of urban planning Thomas Adams (basketball) (born 1980), American basketball player Thomas William Adams (1842–1919), New Zealand farmer, forester, churchman and educationalist See also Tom Adams (disambiguation) Adams (surname). Discover the Thomas Adams popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Thomas Adams books.

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  • Life After Power synopsis, comments

    Life After Power

    Jared Cohen

    New York Times BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States.F...

  • The Conservative Mind synopsis, comments

    The Conservative Mind

    Russell Kirk

    "It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor."  WILLIAM F BUCKLEY "A profound critique of co...

  • 1776 synopsis, comments

    1776

    David McCullough

    America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776...

  • First Principles synopsis, comments

    First Principles

    Thomas E. Ricks

    New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice New York Times Book Review"Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it e...

  • Bunker Hill synopsis, comments

    Bunker Hill

    Nathaniel Philbrick

    The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in thi...

  • How to Fight Presidents synopsis, comments

    How to Fight Presidents

    Daniel O'Brien & Winston Rowntree

    Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanasandmuscles than powderedwigsandtea.  As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state li...

  • How the States Got Their Shapes Too synopsis, comments

    How the States Got Their Shapes Too

    Mark Stein

    Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island?  Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established De...

  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates synopsis, comments

    Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger

    “Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edgeofyourseat, pageturning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know th...

  • The Problem of Democracy synopsis, comments

    The Problem of Democracy

    Nancy Isenberg & Andrew Burstein

    "Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship."The Wall Street JournalHow the father and son president...

  • Wrestling With His Angel synopsis, comments

    Wrestling With His Angel

    Sidney Blumenthal

    The “magisterial” (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal’s acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future pre...

  • The Patriots synopsis, comments

    The Patriots

    Winston Groom

    When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key fo...

  • Fallen Founder synopsis, comments

    Fallen Founder

    Nancy Isenberg

    From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough LinManuel M...

  • Liberty Is Sweet synopsis, comments

    Liberty Is Sweet

    Woody Holton

    A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette GordonReed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooke...

  • James Monroe synopsis, comments

    James Monroe

    Tim McGrath

    The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant...

  • Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents synopsis, comments

    Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

    Cormac O'Brien & Monika Suteski

    Murder, Adultery, Gambling, UFOs And the White House?!?   Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one! Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features ...

  • American Dialogue synopsis, comments

    American Dialogue

    Joseph J. Ellis

    The awardwinning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Jame...

  • The Summer of 1787 synopsis, comments

    The Summer of 1787

    David O. Stewart

    The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that woul...

  • The Presidents Decoded synopsis, comments

    The Presidents Decoded

    Katie Kennedy & Monique Steele

    Ever wonder what the President does? Meet the 45 people who have held the job in this important book that showcases how they each led the country in their timeand features their ow...

  • Freethinkers synopsis, comments

    Freethinkers

    Susan Jacoby

    An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The...

  • Rush synopsis, comments

    Rush

    Stephen Fried

    The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE AMERICAN LIBRA...

  • The Barbary Wars synopsis, comments

    The Barbary Wars

    Frank Lambert

    The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Con...

  • Washington synopsis, comments

    Washington

    Ron Chernow

    From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United ...

  • James Madison synopsis, comments

    James Madison

    Lynne Cheney

    A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney   LinManuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited intere...

  • The American Story synopsis, comments

    The American Story

    David M. Rubenstein

    Cofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing con...

  • Friends Divided synopsis, comments

    Friends Divided

    Gordon S. Wood

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Timesbestselling and Pulitzerwinning Gordon Wood, comes a m...

  • Louisa synopsis, comments

    Louisa

    Louisa Thomas

    From the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time&...

  • Founding Partisans synopsis, comments

    Founding Partisans

    H. W. Brands

    From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.T...

  • The Hardest Job in the World synopsis, comments

    The Hardest Job in the World

    John Dickerson

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and ...

  • Worst of Friends synopsis, comments

    Worst of Friends

    Larry Day & Suzanne Tripp Jurmain

    John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the wo...

  • Rawhide Down synopsis, comments

    Rawhide Down

    Del Quentin Wilber

    A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011A minutebyminute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide w...

  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 synopsis, comments

    The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1

    Larry Schweikart

    A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

  • The Book of Virtues synopsis, comments

    The Book of Virtues

    William J. Bennett

    Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop...

  • The Five of Hearts synopsis, comments

    The Five of Hearts

    Patricia O'Toole

    The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted pho...

  • John Adams synopsis, comments

    John Adams

    Jan Adkins

    Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is...

  • Mrs Kelly synopsis, comments

    Mrs Kelly

    Grantlee Kieza

    The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's motherWhile we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and histori...

  • Mr. President synopsis, comments

    Mr. President

    Ray Raphael

    The littleknown story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day. &#x...