Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-262) and index.

The Power of the presidency -- The nomination secured -- The "so-called religious issue" -- The first debate -- The second debate -- The third debate -- The fourth debate -- A city upon a hill -- The Inaugural address -- The Peace Corps -- The Alliance for Progress -- The Bay of Pigs -- The President and the press -- A man on the moon -- Preparing for war -- A nuclear Sword of Damocles -- A celebrity president -- Hammering big steel -- A declaration of independence -- Why go to the moon? -- Mississippi burns -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- A vision of peace -- The nation's moral crisis -- Ich bin ein Berliner -- Ireland's favorite son -- "A spirit of hope" -- "The clouds have lifted" -- The arts and politics -- Watchmen on the walls of freedom.

CD. Address to the National Press Club (Jan. 14, 1960) -- Acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention (July 15, 1960) -- Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (Sept. 12, 1960) -- The first debate, Chicago (Sept, 26, 1960) -- The second debate, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 7, 1960) -- The third debate, New York and Hollywood (Oct. 13, 1960) -- The fourth debate, New York (Oct. 21, 1960) -- Address to the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Jan. 9, 1961) -- The Inaugural Address (Jan. 20, 1961) -- Announcement of the creation of the Peace Corps (March 1, 1961) -- Proposal of the Alliance of Progress (March 13, 1961) -- Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (April 20, 1961) -- White House news conference (April 21, 1961) -- Address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association (April 27, 1961) -- Special message to the Congress on urgent national needs (May 25, 1961) -- Nationwide address on the Berlin crisis (July 25, 1961) -- Address to the UN General Assembly (Sept. 25, 1961) -- Inaugural anniversary dinner (Jan. 20, 1962) -- Statement and news conference (April 11, 1962) -- Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia (July 4, 1962) -- Address on space travel, Rice University (Sept. 12, 1962) -- The integration of the University of Mississippi (Sept. 30, 1962) -- Nationwide address on the Cuban missile crisis (Oct. 22, 1962) -- Commencement speech at American University, Washington, D.C. (June 10, 1963) -- Report to the American people on civil rights (June 11, 1963) -- Speech at the Berlin Wall (June 26, 1963) -- Address in Dublin to the Irish Parliament (June 28, 1963) -- Address to the nation on the Limited Test Ban Treaty (July 26, 1963) -- Address to the United Nations General Assembly (Sept. 20, 1963) -- Remarks at Amherst College (Oct. 26, 1963) -- Remarks at the Aerospace Medical Center (Nov. 21, 1963) -- Robert F. Kennedy's tribute to John F. Kennedy (Aug. 27, 1964) -- Robert F. Kennedy's statement on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (April 4, 1968) -- Edward Kennedy's tribute to Robert F. Kennedy (June 8, 1968).