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

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


 * Fay, Paul B., Jr. The Pleasure of His Company (1966)
 * Giglio, James. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (1991)
 * 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)
 * Hodgson, Godfrey. JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents (Yale UP, 2015) excerpt
 * Hodgson, Godfrey. JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents (Yale UP, 2015) excerpt
 * Hodgson, Godfrey. JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents (Yale UP, 2015) excerpt




 * Logevall, Fredrik. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020, ISBN 978-0812997132)
 * Logevall, Fredrik. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020, ISBN 978-0812997132)
 * Logevall, Fredrik. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020, ISBN 978-0812997132)


 * Manchester, William. Portrait of a President, John F. Kennedy in profile (1962, 1967)
 * 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
 * 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)
 * Selverstone, Marc J., ed. A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
 * Whalen, Thomas J. JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power (2014)
 * 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)
 * Selverstone, Marc J., ed. A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
 * Whalen, Thomas J. JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power (2014)
 * Selverstone, Marc J., ed. A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
 * Whalen, Thomas J. JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power (2014)
 * Whalen, Thomas J. JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power (2014)
 * Whalen, Thomas J. JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power (2014)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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..
 * 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. ..
 * 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