Bibliography of John F. Kennedy

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

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* Bernstein, Irving. ''Promises kept: John F. Kennedy's new frontier'' (Oxford University Press, 1993
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* Casey, Shaun. ''The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960'' (2009)
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* Collier, Peter & Horowitz, David. ''The Kennedys'' (1984)
* Cottrell, John. ''Assassination! The World Stood Still'' (1964)
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* Daynes, Byron W. and Glen Sussman. ''White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush'' (Texas A&M UP, 2010
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pp. 46-56 on Kennedy.

* Fay, Paul B., Jr. ''The Pleasure of His Company'' (1966)
* Giglio, James. ''The Presidency of John F. Kennedy'' (1991)
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* Hamilton, Nigel. ''JFK: Reckless Youth'' (1992)
* Harper, Paul, and Krieg, Joann P. eds. ''John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited'' (1988)
* Harris, Seymour E. ''The Economics of the Political Parties, with Special Attention to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy'' (1962)
* Heath, Jim F. ''Decade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy–Johnson Years'' (1976)
* Hersh, Seymour. ''The Dark Side of Camelot'' (1997)
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* Hodgson, Godfrey. ''JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents'' (Yale UP, 2015
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* Logevall, Fredrik. ''JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956'' (Random House, 2020, )

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* Manchester, William. '' Portrait of a President'', John F. Kennedy in profile (1962, 1967)
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* Parmet, Herbert. ''Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy'' (1980)
* Parmet, Herbert. ''JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy'' (1983)
* Parmet, Herbert. "The Kennedy Myth". In ''Myth America: A Historical Anthology, Volume II''. Gerster, Patrick, and Cords, Nicholas. (editors.) (1997)
* Piper, Michael Collins. ''Final Judgment'' (2004: sixth edition). American Free Press
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* Reeves, Thomas. ''A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy'' (1991); hostile biography
* Sabato, Larry J. ''The Kennedy Half-Century: The Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy'' (forthcoming, 2013)
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* Selverstone, Marc J., ed. ''A Companion to John F. Kennedy'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
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* Whalen, Thomas J. ''JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power'' (2014)

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 fricanHands:' 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)
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* 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.
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* Shields, David. ''Kennedy and Macmillan: Cold War Politics'' (2006
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* 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. "John F. Kennedy and the Limited Test Ban Treaty: A Case Study of Presidential Leadership." '' Presidential Studies Quarterly'', vol. 29, no. 2 (1999): 460-487.

Historiography and memory

* Abramson, Jill
"Kennedy, the Elusive President."
''New York Times Book Review'' (October 22, 2013).
:: 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. 268-27
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* Craig, Campbell
"Kennedy's International Legacy, Fifty Years On."
'' International Affairs'', vol. 89, no. 6 (2013): 1367-1378. .
* 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.
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* 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. 75-9
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* Hellmann, John (1997). ''The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK''. .
* Kazin, Michael (December 2017). "An Idol and Once a President: John F. Kennedy at 100." '' Journal of American History'', 104#3 pp. 707–726. ..
* 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
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* 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). . Topical essays by scholars focusing on historiography.
* Ulyatt, Michelle. "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 (2014), pp. 117-130. DOI: https://doi.org/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

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* 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. .
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* McNamara, Robert. ''In retrospect: The tragedy and lessons of Vietnam'' (2017).

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