More than you ever wanted to know – and then some!
Writing Patriots & Poisons and Secrets Worth Killing For involved a lot of research into late-eighteenth century Philadelphia, the early Federalist period, and other related subjects. If any aspect interests you to the point that you’d like to read more about it, here is a somewhat extensive but varied list of possible suggestions for further reading. Some of these books are unfortunately out of print, but may be found at the Historical Society of Philadelphia, The Library Company, and the American Philosophical Society, or via used-book sources like ABE Books.
The People
Alberts, Robert C., The Golden Voyage: The Life and Times of William Bingham
Bendini, Silvio A., Thomas Jefferson, Statesman of Science
Binger, Carl, Revolutionary Doctor, Benjamin Rush (1746-1813),
Brodsky, Alyn, Benjamin Rush, Patriot and Physician
Carlyle, Edward Irving, William Cobbett: A Study of His Life as Shown by His Writings
Clarfield, Gerard H., Timothy Pickering & American Diplomacy
Clark, Mary Elizabeth, Peter Porcupine in America: the career of William Cobbett, 1792-1800
Conkin, Paul, “The Religious Pilgrimage of Thomas Jefferson,” in Jeffersonian Legacies, Peter S. Onuf, ed.
Corner, George W., ed., The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush
Holton, Woody, Abigail Adams, A Life
McCullough, David, John Adams
Malone, Dumas, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
Maxey, David W., A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel
Mitchell, Stewart, New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801
Rush, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush
Smith, Edgar, James Woodhouse, a Pioneer in Chemistry
Smith, Page, John Adams
Tagg, James, Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora
Wiencik, Henry, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
The Politics
Baker, Richard Allen, The Senate of the United States: A Bicentennial History
Dauer, Manning J., The Adams Federalists
De Conde, Alexander, The Quasi War, The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801
Library of Congress, “A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation,” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Swandstrom, Roy, The United States Senate 1787-1801
White, Leonard, The Federalists, A Study in Administrative History 1789-1801
The Pirates
Baepler, Paul, White Slaves, African Masters, an Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives
Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, The Wars of the Barbary Pirates
Kitzen, Michael, “Money Bags or Cannon Balls: The Origins of the Tripolitan War, 1795-1801,” in Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 601-624
Lambert, Frank, The Barbary Wars – American Independence in the Atlantic World
Wilson, Gary E., “American Hostages in Moslem Nations, 1784-1796: The Public Response,” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 2, No.2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 123-141
Philadelphia
Dillon, Clarissa, So Serve it Up: Eighteenth-Century English Foodways in Philadelphia
Hines, Mary Anne, Marshall, Gordon & Weaver, William Woys, The Larder Invaded: Reflections on Three Centuries of Philadelphia Food and Drink
Nash, Gary B, Forging Freedom, The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840
Obertholtzer, Ellis Paxon, Philadelphia: a History of the City and Its People
Perkins, Bradford, “A Diplomat’s Wife in Philadelphia: Letters of Henrietta Liston, 1796-1800,” 11 William and Mary Quarterly 592 (1959)
Pollock, TC, Philadelphia Theater in the 18th Century
Roberts, Kenneth and Anna, trans. and eds., Moreau de St. Méry’s American Journey [1793-1798]
Scharf, J Thomas and Thomson Westcott, History of Philadelphia 1609-1884
Sherrill, Charles H., French Memories of Eighteenth Century America
Smith, Billy G., Life in Early Philadelphia – Documents from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods
Smith, Billy, The Lower Sort, Philadelphia’s Laboring People
Thompson, A Social History of Philadelphia’s Taverns
US Department of Interior, History of the City Tavern
Watson, John Fanning, Annals of Philadelphia
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