Literary Hub » John F. Kennedy

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

Alec Nevala-Lee on the Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist's Experimental Approach to Scientific Inquiry

By Alec Nevala-Lee | June 11, 2025

Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

Jennet Conant on the Adventures of One of America's First Female Foreign Correspondents

By Jennet Conant | December 15, 2023

Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

Nick Ripatrazone on the Poetic Aspirations of American Presidents

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 10, 2023

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

Richard Bradford on Political Mythmaking and Self-Delusion

By Richard Bradford | January 17, 2023

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

Julia Sweig On America’s Most Famous Second Lady-Turned-First

By Julia Sweig | May 6, 2022

What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

Jefferson Morley Revisits the Nobel Laureate’s Recent No. 1, “Murder Most Foul”

By Jefferson Morley | November 22, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

When Ray Bradbury Asked John F. Kennedy if He Could Help with the Space Race

By Shaun Usher | September 7, 2021

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

By Stephen Walker | April 15, 2021

Read every presidential inauguration poem ever performed (there are fewer than you think).

By Emily Temple | January 20, 2021

What We Still Don't Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

What We Still Don't Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin J. Sherwin on the Questions that Remain

By Martin J. Sherwin | October 27, 2020

We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

When Poetry Met Power in January, 1961

By John Burnside | February 10, 2020

On the Beauty of Defeat and the Future of Europe

On the Beauty of Defeat and the Future of Europe

Laurent Gaudé in Conversation with Aysegul Sert

By Aysegul Sert | May 7, 2019

The Political Drama That Almost Grounded Project Apollo

The Political Drama That Almost Grounded Project Apollo

"We don’t know a damn thing about the surface of the Moon."

By John Logsdon | September 13, 2018

The Last Days of Robert F. Kennedy

The Last Days of Robert F. Kennedy

On the Radical Compassion of an American Icon

By Timothy Denevi | June 4, 2018

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

How Two Landmark Books by Two Trailblazing Women Rocked America

By Andrea Barnet | March 23, 2018

On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson's

On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"

When History Changes in an Instant

By Joshua Zeitz | February 1, 2018