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Bibliography of John F. Kennedy

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This bibliography of John F. Kennedy is a list of published works about John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.

Biographical and politics

Ballard, Robert D. (2002). Collision with History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109. Washington, DC: National Geographic. ISBN 978-0-7922-6876-5.
Bernstein, Irving. Promises kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier (Oxford University Press, 1993) online.
Bishop, Jim (1964). A Day In The Life of President Kennedy. New York: Random House.
Blight, James G.; Lang, Janet M. (2005). The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4221-1.
Brauer, Carl. J (1977). John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231083676.
Brauer, Carl M. (2002). "John F. Kennedy". In Graff, Henry (ed.). The Presidents: A Reference History (7th ed.). pp. 481–498. ISBN 0-684-80551-0.
Brinkley, Alan (2012). John F. Kennedy. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-8349-1.
Bugliosi, Vincent (2007). Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy . New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-04525-3.
Burner, David (1988). John F. Kennedy and a New Generation. Pearson Longman. ISBN 9780205603459.
Casey, Shaun (2009). The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960.
Clarke, Thurston (2013). JFK's Last Hundred Days. Penguin Press HC. ISBN 978-1-594-20425-8.
Cohen, Andrew (2016) [2014]. Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Changed History. Oxford, England: Signal. ISBN 978-0771023897.
Collier, Peter & Horowitz, David (1984). The Kennedys.
Cottrell, John (1964). Assassination! The World Stood Still.
Dallek, Robert (2003). An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-316-17238-7.
Donovan, Robert J. (2001) [1961]. PT-109: John F. Kennedy in WW II (40th Anniversary ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-137643-3.
Douglass, James W. (2008). JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1-57075-755-6.
Doyle, William (2015). PT-109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy. New York City: Harper-Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-234658-2.
Dudley, Robert L.; Shiraev, Eric (2008). Counting Every Vote: The Most Contentious Elections in American History . Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-59797-224-6.
Daynes, Byron W. and Glen Sussman (2010). White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 46–56 on Kennedy.
Fay, Paul B., Jr. (1966). The Pleasure of His Company.
Giglio, James (1991). The Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Goduti, Philip A. Jr. (2012). Robert F. Kennedy and the Shaping of Civil Rights, 1960-1964. McFarland. ISBN 9781476600871.
Hamilton, Nigel (1992). JFK: Reckless Youth.
Harper, Paul, and Krieg, Joann P. eds. (1988). John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited.
Harris, Seymour E. (1962). The Economics of the Political Parties, with Special Attention to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.
Heath, Jim F. (1976). Decade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy–Johnson Years.
Hersh, Seymour (1997). The Dark Side of Camelot .
Herst, Burton (2007). Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-7867-1982-2.
Hodgson, Godfrey (2015). JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents. Yale UP. Excerpt.
Kenney, Charles (2000). John F. Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-891620-36-2.
Lacroix, Patrick (2021). John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Leaming, Barbara (2006). Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393051-61-2.
Logevall, Fredrik (2020). JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956. Random House. ISBN 978-0812997132.
Maier, Thomas (2004). The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings . ISBN 9780465043187.
Manchester, William (1967). The Death of a President: November 20–25, 1963 . New York: Harper & Row. LCCN 67010496.
Manchester, William (1962, 1967). Portrait of a President . John F. Kennedy in profile.
Matthews, Chris (2011). Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-3508-9.
Parmet, Herbert (1980). Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy.
Parmet, Herbert (1983). JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Parmet, Herbert (1997). "The Kennedy Myth". Gerster, Patrick, and Cords, Nicholas, eds. In Myth America: A Historical Anthology, Volume II.
Piper, Michael Collins (2004). Final Judgment, 6th edition. American Free Press.
O'Brien, Michael (2005). John F. Kennedy: A Biography. Thomas Dunne. ISBN 978-0-312-28129-8.
Reeves, Richard (1993). President Kennedy: Profile of Power. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-64879-4.
Reeves, Thomas. A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (1991); hostile biography
Sabato, Larry J. (2013). The Kennedy Half-Century: The Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy forthcoming
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. (2002) [1965]. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0-618-21927-8.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. (2002) [1978]. Robert Kennedy And His Times . Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0618219285.
Selverstone, Marc J., ed. (2014). A Companion to John F. Kennedy. Wiley-Blackwell.
Sorensen, Theodore (1966) [1965]. Kennedy (paperback). New York: Bantam. OCLC 2746832.
Taraborrelli, J. Randy (2025). JFK: Public, Private, Secret (1st hardcover ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250346384. OCLC 1522761868.
Walton, Hanes Jr.; Smith, Robert C. (2000). American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom. Addison, Wesley, Longman. ISBN 0-321-07038-0.
Whalen, Thomas J. (2014). JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power.

Foreign policy

Andrew, Christopher (1995). For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. pp. 257–306.
Angelo, Anne-Marie, and Tom Adam Davies. "'American Business can Assist [African] Hands:' The Kennedy Administration, U.S. Corporations, and the Cold War Struggle for Africa." The Sixties 8.2 (2015): 156-178.
Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (1991)
Brinkley, Douglas, and Richard T. Griffiths, eds. John F. Kennedy and Europe (1999) essays by experts.
Busch, Peter. All the Way With JFK? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War (2003).
Colman, Jonathan (2015). "The 'Bowl of Jelly': The U.S. Department of State during the Kennedy and Johnson Years, 1961-1968." Hague Journal of Diplomacy , vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 172–196.
Cull, Nicholas J. "'The Man Who Invented Truth': The Tenure of Edward R. Murrow as Director of the United States Information Agency During the Kennedy Years." Cold War History 4.1 (2003): 23-48.
David, Andrew, and Michael Holm. "The Kennedy Administration and the Battle Over Foreign Aid: The Untold Story of the Clay Committee." Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 27, no. 1 (2016): 65-92.
Dean, Robert D. "Masculinity as ideology: John F. Kennedy and the domestic politics of foreign policy." Diplomatic History 22.1 (1998): 29-62.
Dunne, Michael. "Kennedy's Alliance for Progress: Countering Revolution in Latin America, Part II: The Historiographical Record." International Affairs , vol. 92, no. 2 (2016): 435-452.
Field, Thomas C. From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era (2014)
Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam (2000)
Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958–1964 (1997)
Gavin, Francis J. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 (2007)
Gioe, David, and Len Scott, Christopher Andrew, eds. An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2014), essays by scholars.
Giglio, James N. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (2006).
Gleijeses, Piero. "Ships in the Night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs." Journal of Latin American Studies (1995) 27#1 1–42
Hilsman, Roger. To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy (1967).
Hurley, Christopher John. The Imperial Imperative: John F Kennedy and US Foreign Relations. (Master of Research (MRes) thesis, University of Kent, 2018) online
Hybel, A. US Foreign Policy Decision-making from Truman to Kennedy: Responses to International Challenges (Springer, 2016).
Jones, Howard. The Bay of Pigs (2008)
Jones, Howard. The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (2003)
Kaufman, Burton I. "John F. Kennedy as world leader: A perspective on the literature." Diplomatic History 17.3 (1993): 447-470.
Kempe, Frederick. Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth (2011).
Kunz, Diane B. The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations during the 1960s (1994)
Logevall, Fredrik, The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999).
Lynch, Grayston L. Decision for Disaster Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs (2000)
McKercher, Asa. Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era (Oxford UP, 2016).
Muehlenbeck, Philip Emil. Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's courting of African nationalist leaders (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power (1992)
Newmann, William W. "Searching for the Right Balance? Managing Foreign Policy Decisions under Eisenhower and Kennedy." Congress & the Presidency 42#2 (2015).
O'Brien, Michael. John F. Kennedy: A Biography (2005).
Pelz, Stephen E. "“When Do I Have Time to Think?” John F. Kennedy, Roger Hilsman, and the Laotian Crisis of 1962." Diplomatic History 3.2 (1979): 215-230.
Paterson, Thomas G., ed. Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963 (1989).
Powaski, Ronald E. "John F. Kennedy, the Hawks, the Doves, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962." in American Presidential Statecraft (2017) pp. 11–65.
Rabe, Stephen G. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America (1999).
Rakove, Robert B. Kennedy, Johnson and the Nonaligned World (2013)
Riedel, Bruce. JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War (2015).
Rizas, Sotiris. "Formulating a policy towards Eastern Europe on the eve of Détente: The USA, the Allies and Bridge Building, 1961–1964." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 12.1 (2014): 18-40.
Schaffer, Howard B. Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War (1993)
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965)
Schoenbaum, Thomas J. Waging Peace and War: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy and Johnson Years (1988)
Selverstone, Marc J. "Eternal Flaming: The Historiography of Kennedy Foreign Policy." Passport: The Newsletter of the SHAFR , vol. 46, no. 1 (April 2015), pp 22–29.
Selverstone, Marc J., ed. A Companion to John F. Kennedy (2014). Emphasis on historiography.
Sergunin, Alexander. "John F. Kennedy’s Decision-Making on the Berlin Crisis of 1961." Review of History and Political Science , vol. 2, no. 1 (2014): 1-27. online Archived February 20, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
Shields, David. Kennedy and Macmillan: Cold War Politics (2006) excerpt
Shapley, Deborah. Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara (1993)
Simpson, Bradley. Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations 1960-1968 (2008)
Taffet, Jeffrey J. Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America (2007)
Tucker, Spencer. The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (1998)
Walton, Richard J. Cold War and Counterrevolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy (1972).
Wenger, Andreas, and Marcel Gerber (June 1999). "John F. Kennedy and the Limited Test Ban Treaty: A Case Study of Presidential Leadership". Presidential Studies Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 2: 460-487. JSTOR 27551999.

Historiography and memory

Abramson, Jill (October 22, 2013). "Kennedy, the Elusive President". The New York Times Book Review .

Notes that thus far about 40,000 books have been published about JFK.

Brandimarte, Cynthia A. "Review: The Sixth Floor: John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation," Journal of American History 78#1 (1991), pp. 268–274. JSTOR /2078102
Craig, Campbell. "Kennedy's International Legacy, Fifty Years On". International Affairs , vol. 89, no. 6 (2013): 1367-1378. JSTOR 24538446.
Eder, Elizabeth. "Memory of a Nation: Effectively Using Artworks to Teach about the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy". Social Education (November/December 2011), pp. 296–300.
George, Alice. The assassination of John F. Kennedy: political trauma and American memory (Routledge, 2012).
Gunzenhäuser, Randi. "History, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy" Amerikastudien/ American Studies 43#1 (1998), pp. 75–91. JSTOR 41157352.
Hellmann, John (1997). The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK. ISBN 978-0231107983.
Kazin, Michael (December 2017). "An Idol and Once a President: John F. Kennedy at 100." Journal of American History , 104#3 pp. 707–726. doi:10.1093/jahist/jax315. ISSN 0021-8723.}.
Kitch, Carolyn. " 'A death in the American family': Myth, memory, and national values in the media mourning of John F. Kennedy Jr." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79.2 (2002): 294-309.
Knott, Stephen F. Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy (2022) excerpt
Santa Cruz, Paul H. Making JFK Matter: Popular Memory and the 35th President. Denton: University of North Texas Press (2015).
Selverstone, Marc J., ed. A Companion to John F. Kennedy. Wiley-Blackwell (2014). ISBN 978-1444350364. Topical essays by scholars focusing on historiography.
Ulyatt, Michelle (2014). "The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum as a Cultural Representation of the Public Memory of the President". European Journal of American Culture. 33#2, pp. 117–130. doi:10.1386/ejac.33.2.117_1.
Ward, John William (1969). Red, White, and Blue: Men, Books, and Ideas in American Culture . New York: Oxford University Press.

Primary sources

Alford, Mimi; Newman, Judith (2011). Once Upon A Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and its Aftermath. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-193175-9.
Goldzwig, Steven R. and Dionisopoulos, George N., eds. In a Perilous Hour: The Public Address of John F. Kennedy (1995)
Kennedy, Jacqueline. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011). Hyperion Books. ISBN 1401324258.
McNamara, Robert S. (2000). Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy.
McNamara, Robert. In retrospect: The tragedy and lessons of Vietnam (2017).

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