His Excellency: George Washington is a 2004 biography of the first President of the United States, General George Washington. It was written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, who specializes in the founding fathers and the revolutionary and federalist periods.
Joseph Ellis has also written about John Adams
If the author wrote about the Federalist period he must absolutely have at least once mentioned John Adams, the chief Federalist of the time.