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

Foreign policy

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


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