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

• 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.
• 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. The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009)
• 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. The Kennedys (1984)
• Cottrell, John. Assassination! The World Stood Still (1964)
• 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.
• Fay, Paul B., Jr. The Pleasure of His Company (1966)
• Giglio, James. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (1991)
• Goduti Jr., Philip A. (2012). Robert F. Kennedy and the Shaping of Civil Rights, 1960-1964. McFarland. ISBN 9781476600871.
• 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)
• 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. JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents (Yale UP, 2015) 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. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020, 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. Portrait of a President, John F. Kennedy in profile (1962, 1967)
• Matthews, Chris (2011). Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-3508-9.
• 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
• 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. The Kennedy Half-Century: The Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy (forthcoming, 2013)
• 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. A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
• Sorensen, Theodore (1966) [1965]. Kennedy (paperback). New York: Bantam. OCLC 2746832.
• Walton Jr., Hanes; 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. 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 [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)
• 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
• 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. "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. 268-274 online

• 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. online
• 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 online

• 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. ISSN 0021-8723.doi:10.1093/jahist/jax315.
• 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. "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

• 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).