1960 United States presidential election

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Alexander |first=Herbert E. |title=Financing the 1960 Election |year=1962 |oclc=249214383}}
* [[Stephen E. Ambrose|Ambrose, Stephen]], ''Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962'' (1987), ch. 25–26
* [[Angus Campbell (psychologist)|Campbell, Angus]] et al., ''Elections and the Political Order'' (1966), statistical studies of survey data [https://archive.org/details/electionspolitic0000unse online]
* Casey, Shaun A., ''The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960'' (Oxford University Press, 2009), 261 pp.
* [[Philip Converse|Converse, Philip E.]], Angus Campbell, Warren E. Miller, [[Donald E. Stokes]]. "Stability and change in 1960: a reinstating election", ''American Political Science Review'' 55.2 (1961): 269–280. [https://doi.org/10.2307/1952237 online]
* Cosman, Bernard, "Presidential Republicanism in the South, 1960", ''Journal of Politics'' 24.2 (1962): 303–322.
* Cosman, Bernard, "Religion and Race in Louisiana Presidential Politics, 1960", ''Southwestern Social Science Quarterly'' (1962): 235–241. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42866856 online]
* {{cite book |last=Dallek |first=Robert Gold |author-link=Robert Dallek |chapter=Chapter 16: The Making of a Vice President |title=Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960 |url=https://archive.org/details/lonestarrisingly00dall_0 |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-19-505435-4}}
* Divine, Robert A., ''Foreign Policy and U.S. Presidential Elections, 1952–1960'' (1974) [https://archive.org/details/foreignpolicyus00robe online].
* Donaldson, Gary A., ''The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 199 pp.
* Gellman, Irwin F., ''Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960'' (Yale University Press, 2022) [https://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Century-Kennedy-Nixon-Election/dp/0300218265/ excerpt].
* Ingle, H. Larry, "Billy Graham: The Evangelical in Politics, 1960s-Style", in Peter Bien and Chuck Fager, eds., ''In Stillness there is Fullness: A Peacemaker's Harvest'' (Kimo Press, 2000)
* Johnstone, Andrew, and Andrew Priest, eds., ''US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton'' (2017), pp.&nbsp;128–153. [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/50578/ online]
* {{cite book |last=Kallina |first=Edmund F. |title=Courthouse Over White House: Chicago and the Presidential Election of 1960 |year=1988 |publisher=University Presses of Florida, University of Central Florida Press |isbn=978-0-8130-0864-6}}
* {{cite book |last=Kraus |first=Sidney |title=The Great Debates: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 |year=1977 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-32631-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Lacroix |first=Patrick |title=John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith |publisher=University Press of Kansas |location=Lawrence, KS |date=2021}}
* Lee, Eugene C., and William Buchanan, "The 1960 Election in California", ''Western Political Quarterly'' 14#1 (1961), pp.&nbsp;309–326. [https://doi.org/10.2307/443852 online]
* {{cite book |last=Lisle |first=T. David |chapter=Southern Baptists and the Issue of Catholic Autonomy in the 1960 Presidential Campaign |editor=Paul Harper |editor2=Joann P. Krieg |title=John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited |url=https://archive.org/details/johnfkennedyprom00t196 |url-access=registration |year=1988 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/johnfkennedyprom00t196/page/273 273]–285 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780313262012}}
* {{cite journal |last=Massa |first=Mark S. |title=A Catholic for President: John F. Kennedy and the Secular Theology of the Houston Speech, 1960 |journal=Journal of Church and State |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=297–317 |year=1997 |doi=10.1093/jcs/39.2.297 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Chris |author-link=Chris Matthews |title=Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America |url=https://archive.org/details/kennedynixonriva00matt |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1996 |isbn=978-0684810300}}
* Menendez, Albert J., ''The Religious Factor in the 1960 Presidential election: an analysis of the Kennedy victory over anti-Catholic prejudice'' (McFarland, 2014).
* {{cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Michael |title=John F. Kennedy: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/johnfkennedybiog00obri |at=Ch. 21–24 |year=2005 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0312281298}}
* {{cite book |last=Pietrusza |first=David |author-link=David Pietrusza |title=1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies |url=https://archive.org/details/1960lbjvsjfkvsni0000piet |url-access=registration |publisher=Union Square Press |year=2008 |isbn=9781402761140}}
* Rorabaugh, William J., "The Election of 1960", in ''A Companion to John F. Kennedy'' (2014): 51–73.
* {{cite book |last=Rorabaugh |first=W.J. |author-link=W. J. Rorabaugh |title=The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election |url=https://archive.org/details/realmakingofpres0000rora |url-access=registration |publisher=University Press of Kansas |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7006-1887-3}}
* Savage, Sean J., ''JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party'' (SUNY Press, 2012) pp.&nbsp;39–89.
* Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., ''Robert Kennedy and His Times'' (1978), pp.&nbsp;192–221.
* Wagner, Stanley P., "The Polish-American Vote in 1960", ''Polish American Studies'' (1964): 1–9. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20147659 online]
* {{cite book |last=White |first=Theodore H. |author-link=Theodore H. White |title=[[The Making of the President 1960]] |location=New York |publisher=Atheneum |year=1980 |orig-year=1961 |isbn=978-0-689-70600-4}}

===Primary sources===
* [[George Gallup|Gallup, George H.]], ed., ''The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935–1971''. 3 vols. Random House, 1972. poll results
* {{cite book |last=Nixon |first=Richard M. |author-link=Richard Nixon |title=RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon |year=1978 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-70741-5}} [https://archive.org/details/rnmemoirsofricha00nixo online]
* Chester, Edward W., ''A guide to political platforms'' (1977) [https://archive.org/details/guidetopolitical0000ches online]
* Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds., ''National party platforms, 1840–1972'' (1973)

===Historiography===
* {{cite journal |last=Brands |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Brands |title=Burying Theodore White: Recent Accounts of the 1960 Presidential Election |journal=[[Presidential Studies Quarterly]] |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=364–367 |date=June 2010 |jstor=23044826 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-5705.2010.03761.x}}