An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1)
November 27, 2023
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Books Referenced
Author: Richard Hofstadter
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Referenced as a book written the year after Kennedy's assassination, discussing the theme of paranoia in American politics
Author: Fred Logevall
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Referred to multiple times as 'Fred Logevall's great book on JFK' and 'his big biography' - a biography of JFK's early life
Author: Winston Churchill
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Described as the book Kennedy read as a teenager that 'transformed his life' - Churchill's account of the First World War
Author: Winston Churchill
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Referenced as 'Churchill's massive million word biography of the Duke of Marlborough' which Kennedy read after The World Crisis
Author: David Cecil
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A biography of Lord Melbourne mentioned as something Kennedy read and 'became absolutely a mad devotee of Lord Melbourne'
Author: John Buchan
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Mentioned as one of the books Kennedy took with him to the South Pacific during World War II
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Mentioned as a book Kennedy took with him and read while serving in the South Pacific
Author: Anonymous (Traditional)
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Mentioned as one of the adventure and romantic stories Kennedy loved reading as a child
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Referenced as a book Kennedy wrote about British politics in the 1930s, about Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain, based on his Harvard senior thesis