JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, “INAUGURAL ADDRESS” (20 JANUARY 1961)

Readings

Burns, James. John Kennedy: A Political Profile. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

————. “Inaugurating the Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 25 (1985): 394-411.

————. Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008, 1990.

Clarke, Thurston. Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2004.

Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 2003.

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

Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper, 1956.

————. Why England Slept. New York: W. Funk, Inc, 1940.

Kenny, Edward B. “Another Look at Kennedy’s Inaugural Address.” Today’s Speech 13 (1965): 17-19.

Leamer, Laurence. The Kennedy Men. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001.

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

Manchester, William. The Death of a President. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

O’Brien, Michael. John F. Kennedy: A Biography. 1st ed. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: The Dramatic Official Answer to Who Killed Kennedy. New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1964.

Salinger, Pierre. With Kennedy. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1966.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

Sheard, Cynthia Miecznikowski. “The Public Value of Epideictic Rhetoric.” College English 58 (1996): 765-795.

Sorensen, Theodore C. Decision-Making in the White House. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

————. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.

Sugino, Takako. “Stylistic Aspects of John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address.” Speech Education 2 (1974): 48-53.

Wolfarth, Donald L. “John F. Kennedy in the Traditional of Inaugural Speeches.”

Quarterly Journal of Speech 47 (1961): 124-132.

Audio-Visual Materials 

Bernstein, Armyan. Thirteen Days. New York: New Line Home Entertainment, 2001. Motion Picture, Video Recording.

Jennings, Peter. The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy. New York: ABC News Productions, 2004. Video Recording.

The JFK Tapes: Inside the Cuban Missile Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998. Video Recording.

Martin, Terry. Crisis in Cuba. New York: History Channel, A&E Home Video, 1994. Video Recording.

“Media Gallery.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Photographs, available at http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Media-Gallery.aspx.

Prados, John. The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President. New York: New Press, 2003. Audio Recording.

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

Stone, Oliver. JFK. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video. Motion Picture, Video Recording. 

On-Line Resources

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

Bartley, Robert L. Kennedy’s Vietnam. Wall Street Journal OpinionJournalhttp://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110003632.

Biography of John F. Kennedy. Official White House Website, History & Tours, Past Presidents, http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html.

Bostdorff, Denise and Steven Goldzwig. Idealism and Pragmatism in American Foreign Policy Rhetoric, http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/goldzwig.htm.

Bringham, Robert K. Battlefield Vietnam: A History. PBS.orghttp://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/index.html.

Galbraith, James. Kennedy, Vietnam, and Iraq. Salon.comhttp://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/11/22/vietnam/.

JFK Executive Orders. University of Michigan School of Information, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graceyor/govdocs/jfkeo.html.

“John F. Kennedy.” Deathiversary. The Biography Channel, http://www.biography.com/deathiversary/jfk/jfk.jsp.

John F. Kennedy Photo History. The History Placehttp://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/gallery.htm.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. http://www.jfklibrary.org/.

McAdams, John. The Kennedy Assassination, http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm.

United States Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, Kennedy Administration, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/kennedy.

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