Readings

Benson, Thomas W. Writing JFK: Presidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs Crisis. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2004.

Bernstein, Irving. Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Brockriede, Wayne, and Robert L. Scott. Moments in the Rhetoric of the Cold War. New York: Random House, 1970.

Brogan, Hugh. Kennedy. New York: Longman Publishing Group, 1996; rpt. 2000.

Burner, David. John F. Kennedy and a New Generation, 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009.

Claflin, Edward B., ed. JFK Wants to Know: Memos from the President’s Office, 1961-1963. New York: William Morrow Company, 1991.

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

Davis, Richard, The Press and American Politics: The New Mediator. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

Giglio, James N. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy, Rev. ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Graham, James. “Kennedy, Cuba, and the Press.” Journalism History 24 (1998): 60-72.

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

Jones, Howard. The Bay of Pigs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kaiser, David E. The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Kennedy, John F. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc. 1940; rpt. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.

—. ed. As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1945.

—. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955; rpt. New York: Perennial/HarperCollins, 2006.

—. A Nation of Immigrants. New York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1964, Rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.

—. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Compilation of Statements and Speeches Made During His Service in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1964.

—. The Kennedy Presidential Press Conferences. New York: Earl M. Coleman Enterprises, 1978.

Kern, Montague, Patricia W. Levering, and Ralph B. Levering. The Kennedy Crises: The Press, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Maltese, John A. ‘Spin Control.’ The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News. 2^nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Medhurst, Martin J., Robert L. Ivie, Phillip Wander, and Robert L. Scott. Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997.

Medhurst, Martin J., and H.W. Brands, eds. Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

O’Brien, Michael. John F. Kennedy: A Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Parmet, Herbert S. Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1980.
—. JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1983.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J. The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002.

Reeves, Richard. President Kennedy: Profile of Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Rorabaugh, W. J. Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1965; rpt. First Mariner Books, 2002.

Sidey, Hugh. John F. Kennedy, President. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

Smith, Craig A., and Kathy B. Smith. The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994.

Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, 1965; rpt. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.

—. The Kennedy Legacy. New York: MacMillan Company, 1969; rpt. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
—. ed. “Let the Word Go Forth”: The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedy. New York: Delacorte Press, 1988.

Tebbel, John, and Sarah M. Watts, The Press and the Presidency: From George Washington to Ronald Reagan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

White, Theodore H. The Making of the President, 1960. Cutchogue, NY: Antheneum House, Inc., 1961; rpt. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004.

Audio-Visual Materials

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment. New York, NY: New Video Group, 2003. Video Recording.

JFK. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2003. Video Recording.

JFK: A Presidency Revealed. New York, NY: A&E Home Video, 2003. Video Recording.

JFK: Reckless Youth. Orland Park, IL: MPI Home Video, 1993. Video Recording.

The Kennedys. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1997. Video Recording.

The Speeches of John F. Kennedy. Oak Forest, IL: MPI Home Video, 1990. Video Recording.

Thirteen Days. New York, NY: New Line Home Entertainment, 2001. Video Recording.

On-Line Resources

“Address Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 20 April 1961 (Audio).” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-024-001.aspx

“Address to American Society of Newspaper Editors, 20 April 1961 (Press Copy and Reading Copy).” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-034-018.aspx

American President: John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, http://millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/kennedy

“Bay of Pigs Invasion Newsreel.” C-SPAN, http://www.c-span.org/video/?101118-1/bay-pigs-invasion-newsreel

“Biography of John F. Kennedy.” Official White House Website, History and Tours, Past Presidents, https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnfkennedy

“Declassified Top Secret Documents Concerning Cuba, 1961.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-115-003.aspx

“Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy.” 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962-64. The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/john_f_kennedy.php

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.jfklibrary.org/

“This Day in History (April 17, 1961).” History.com, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-begins

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