John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address

Bibliography

Articles

• Golden, James L. “John F. Kennedy and the ‘Ghosts.'” Quarterly Journal of Speech 52, no. 4 (December 1966): 348–357.
• Hahn, Dan F. “Ask Not What a Youngster Can Do for You: Kennedy's Inaugural Address.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 12, no. 4 (1982): 610–614.
• Kenny, Edward B. “Another Look at Kennedy's Inaugural Address.” Today's Speech 13, no. 4 (November 1965): 17–19.
• Menand, Louis. “Ask Not, Tell Not: Anatomy of an Inaugural.” New Yorker, November 8, 2004: 110–119.
• Meyer, Sam. “The John F. Kennedy Inauguration Speech: Function and Importance of Its ‘Address System.'” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 12, no. 4 (Fall 1982): 239–250.
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• Wolfarth, Donald L. “John F. Kennedy in the Tradition of Inaugural Speeches.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 47 (April 1961): 124–132.

Books

• Clarke, Thurston. Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.
• Fairlie, Henry. The Kennedy Promise: The Politics of Expectation. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973.
• Giglio, James N. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. 2nd ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
• O'Brien, Michael. John F. Kennedy: A Biography. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2005.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
• Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
• Tofel, Richard J. Sounding the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
• White, Theodore H. The Making of the President, 1960. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1961.

Web Sites

• “John F. Kennedy.” PBS “American Experience: The Presidents” Web site. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/35_kennedy/index.html. Accessed on March 4, 2008.
• “John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963).” Miller Center of Public Affairs “American President: An Online Reference Resource” Web site. http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/kennedy. Accessed on March 4, 2008.
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Web site. http://www.jfklibrary.org. Accessed on October 25, 2007.
• “Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Civic Auditorium, Seattle, WA, September 6th, 1960.” The American Presidency Project Web site. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25654&st=&st1=. Accessed on March 5, 2008.
• “Speeches and Quotes: ‘We Shall Fight on the Beaches.'” The Churchill Centre Web site. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=393. Accessed on March 3, 2008.