JFK: Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956

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

Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After the Fact: the Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report (Bobbs–Merrill, 1967). Logevallartfully melds the biographical and historical approaches. Though crafted as a kind of bildungsroman , JFK delivers something more than the traditional story of the callow wastrel’s maturation into the admirable adult.” — The New York Times Book Review Josiah Thompson, Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro–Study of the Kennedy Assassination (Bernard Geis Associates, 1967).Kunz, Diane B. The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations during the 1960s (1994) 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 Hybel, A. US Foreign Policy Decision-making from Truman to Kennedy: Responses to International Challenges (Springer, 2016). Excellent. Factual, precise and clearly written. A really great introduction to the complexities of this case.”

Bugliosi, Vincent (2007). Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-04525-3.

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Hilsman, Roger. To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy (1967). I think so. For example, to take a rather esoteric topic, there is his stance in favour of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, even though powerful interests in Massachusetts were against it and even though allies warned Kennedy he might be committing political suicide in supporting it. He favoured the Seaway because he thought it was in the interest of the nation, and ultimately also of Massachusetts. 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. 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

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. Taffet, Jeffrey J. Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America (2007) Turning to the books you selected, I thought the place to start was Prelude to Leadership: The Postwar Diary of John F. Kennedy. Gunzenhäuser, Randi. "History, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy" Amerikastudien/ American Studies 43#1 (1998), pp. 75-91 onlineKennedys and King, formerly known as Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, also covers the other political assassinations of the 1960s.