In 1961, Life Magazine interviewed John F Kennedy and among other conversations asked him for his Top 10 Book list. Notice only one Fiction title in the group. Realize that the first Bond movie was not produced until 1963
~ Montrose by John Buchan
~ From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming
~ Melbourne (Power & Personality Series) by Lord David Cecil
~ Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One by Winston S. Churchill
~ John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
~ The Emergence of Lincoln, Vol. 2: Prologue to Civil War, 1859-1861 by Allan Nevins
~ The price of union by Herbert Agar
~ John C Calhoun American Portrait by Margaret L Coit
~ Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
~ The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
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