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This list was sent out upon request to various libraries during National Library Week as "particular favorites" of President Kennedy. At some point during his service as museum curator at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Dave Powers, friend and aide to John F. Kennedy, added some further titles and authors that he knew were also Kennedy's favorites. These are given at the bottom of the page.
Lord Melbourne by David Cecil Montrose by John Buchan Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins The Price of Union by Herbert Agar John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit Talleyrand by Duff Cooper Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell The Red and the Black by M. de Stendhal From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Writing and Speeches of Daniel Webster Andre Malraux The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Henry Clay by Carl Schurz Battles and Leaders of the Civil War The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by James Marquis
