American Experience

Further Reading — Books

Beschloss, Michael R. Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance. New York: Norton, 1980.

Blair, Joan and Clay Jr. The Search for JFK. New York: Berkley, 1976.

Bradlee, Benjamin C. Conversations with Kennedy. New York: Norton, 1975.

Burns, James McGregor. Edward Kennedy and the Camelot Legacy. New York: Norton, 1976.

Cameron, Gail. Rose: A Biography of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. New York: Putnam, 1971.

Chellis, Marcia. Living with the Kennedys: The Joan Kennedy Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Clymer, Adam. Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography. New York: Morrow, 1999.

Collier, Peter and David Horowitz. The Kennedys: An American Drama. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002.

Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2003.

Davis, John H. The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster 1848-1983. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Dickerson, Nancy. Among Those Present: A Reporter’s View of Twenty-Five Years in Washington. New York: Random House, 1976.

Edelman, Peter B. Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001.

Fairlie, Henry. The Kennedy Promise: The Politics of Expectation. New York: Doubleday, 1973.

Galbraith, John K. Ambassador’s Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years. London: Hamilton, 1969.

Gibson, Barbara and Caroline Latham. Life with Rose Kennedy. New York: Warner, 1986.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

Goodwin, Richard N. Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties. Boston: Little Brown, 1988.

Guthman, Edwin. We Band of Brothers: A Memoir of Robert F. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972.

——. The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy. New York: Random House, 1968.

Hamilton, Nigel. JFK: Reckless Youth. New York: Random House, 1992.

Hersh, Burton. The Education of Edward Kennedy: A Family Biography. New York: William Morrow, 1972.

——. The Shadow President: Ted Kennedy in Opposition. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 1997.

Higham, Charles. Rose: The Life and Times of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. New York: Pocket Books, 1995.

Honan, William H. Ted Kennedy: Profile of a Survivor. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.

Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Kennedy, Edward Moore and Mark O. Hatfield. Freeze!: How You Can Help Prevent Nuclear War. Toronto, New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

Kennedy, Edward Moore. In Critical Condition: the Crisis in America’s Health Care. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Kennedy, John F. Why England Slept. New York: W. Funk, 1961.

——. Profiles in Courage. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Kennedy, Joseph P. I’m For Roosevelt. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936.

——. Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy. Edited by Amanda Smith. New York: Viking, 2001.

Kennedy, Robert F. To Seek a Newer World. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1967.

——. The Pursuit of Justice / edited by Theodore J. Lowi. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

——. The Enemy Within. New York: Harper, 1960.

——. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Norton,1999.

May, Ernest and Philip Zelikow, et al., editors. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Norton, 2002.

Kessler, Ronald. The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded. New York: Warner Books, 1996.

Kimball, Penn. Bobby Kennedy and the New Politics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,1968.

Klein, Edward. All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. New York: Pocket Books, 1996.

Koskoff, David E. Joseph P. Kennedy, A Life and Times. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1974.

Krock, Arthur. Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.

Lerner, Max. Ted and the Kennedy Legend: A Study in Character and Destiny. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.

Lester, David and Irene. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Folk Hero. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986.

Lincoln, Evelyn. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy. New York: David McKay, 1965.

Lowe, Jacques. Kennedy, A Time Remembered. London, Quartet Books, 1983.

Manchester, William. One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy. Boston: Little Brown, 1983.

——. Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile. Boston, Little Brown, 1967.

Martin, Ralph G. A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

McTaggart, Lynne. Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times. New York: Dial Press,1983.

Nichols, William. The Bobby Kennedy Nobody Knows. New York: Fawcett, 1967.

O’Brien, Lawrence F. No Final Victories: A Life in Politics — from John F. Kennedy to Watergate. New York: Doubleday, 1974.

Paper, Lewis J. The Promise and the Performance: The Leadership of John F. Kennedy. New York: Crown, 1975.

Parmet, Herbert S. Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1980.

Rainie, Harrison and John Quinn. Growing Up Kennedy: The Third Wave Comes of Age. New York: Putnam, 1983.

Salinger, Pierre. With Kennedy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Cycles of American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

——. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1965.

——. Robert Kennedy and His Times. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

Searls, Hank. The Lost Prince: Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy. New York: World Pub. Co., 1969.

Shannon, William. The Heir Apparent: Robert Kennedy and the Struggle for Power. New York: MacMillian, 1967.

Shaw, Maud. White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr.. New York: New American Library, 1966.

Shesol, Jeff. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade. New York: Norton, 1997.

Sidey, Hugh. John F. Kennedy, President. New York: Atheneum, 1964.

Smith, Malcolm E. John F. Kennedy’s 13 Greatest Mistakes in the White House. Smithtown, NY, Suffolk House, 1980.

Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy. New York. Harper & Row, 1965.

Stein, Jean. American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy. Edited by George Plimpton. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.

Thomas, Evan. Robert Kennedy: His Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Vanden Hauvel, William, and Milton Gwirtzman. On His Own: Robert F. Kennedy 1964-1968. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.

Warren Commission. The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (USGPO 1964). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.

Whalen, Richard J. The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy and the Family He Rose to Power. Washington, DC: National Book Network, 1964.

Witcover, Jules. 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy. New York: Quill, 1969.

White, Theodore H. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure. New York: Warner Books, 1979.

——. The Making of the President 1960. New York: Pocket Books, 1962.

Wills, Gary. The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Mediation on Power. Boston: Little Brown, 1982.

Wofford, Harris. Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.