El May 29th 1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born, one of the personalities most relevant twentieth century. The most famous of the presidents of the United States had a life as fascinating as a tragic ending, well known and analyzed ad nauseam.

The creative writing on his figure are uncountable. Essays, biographies, fiction, non-fiction and any tone. And they will continue to be written without a doubt. Today I select a list of 7 titles with JFK as the protagonist. In order to go inside or just take a minimal look to a name that transcended himself and his history to become her.

Pound - Don DeLillo

The title of this novel alludes to Zodiac sign which was Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged murderer of Kennedy. Or at least, the visible head of the supposed and complex international conspiracy to end him. DeLillo plays with the Oswald biography, like a troubled child with a troubled inner world and then a young man whose ideals constantly conflict with reality.

Pound is a speculation of events that triggered the Kennedy assassination and the general atmosphere of those years when the great American dream began to collapse to give way to enormous government secrecy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Speeches (1960-1963) - Salvador Rus Rufino

This book by Rus Rufino consists of two parts, a biographical essay of 42 pages and 22 speeches pronounced by JFK between July 15, 1960, when he accepted his nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate, and on November 22, 1963, one of two that he failed to pronounce in Texas on the day he was assassinated.

Historical conversations about my life with John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Jacqueline Kennedy

It is the story told by the first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, to the historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which was kept in recordings for decades. The conversation was shortly after JFK's death, and in it he is the main topic, he talks about his habits, his political aspirations, his childhood heroes or the first years of marriage.

America - James Ellroy

And if we talk about Kennedy, we cannot miss the darkest and most crude narrator of that historical period, James Ellroy. This is the first book of the call American Trilogy composed Six of the Greats y Vagabond Blood. The central plot is the political intrigue of the troubled period, between the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, which culminated with the Kennedy assassination. Again, and as usual, the innumerable collection of real and fictional characters and stark prose by Ellroy offer a fresco of a time that is already mythical.

JF Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe - Cordelia Callás

Cordelia Callás, Mexican essayist, tells us in this book aspects of the romantic relationship that brought these two characters together while showing the context they had around them. What the fame, the political secrets, the family pressures and the interests of the mafia supposed on two figures to whom a very similar fate continued to join.

JFK File - In the footsteps of the murderers - José Manuel García Bautista

In this book the chronology of the assassination is reviewed and delves into the complex relationships existing in the US power, the enemies of JFK, the reasons for killing him and who could give the order.

JF Kennedy, An Unfinished Life - Robert Dallek

This is the portrait of a man who lived life as intensely as he could, even though he sometimes hurt other people. Thus, we meet a young Jackie, follow her courtship, and observe her marriage, both in public and in private. Dallek analyzes the many president's infidelities and revealing some of them for the first time. It was sold as the definitive biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a hero for the Americans, but above all an ordinary man, with his miseries and weaknesses, very well hidden under the image of a triumphant public life.