Bibliography & Related Links
The following textual and on-line resources can serve as starting points to provide context for information found in the Henry M. Jackson Papers, and as aids in identifying areas for further research in the collection.
All of the books listed below are available in the University of Washington Libraries and can be located through the on-line catalog.
Ekroth, Fair Taylor, Trudy Holzinger, and John Stenhouse. 1972. The Jackson papers. Seattle: Washington Democratic Council.
Fosdick, Dorothy, editor. 1987. Staying the course: Henry M. Jackson and national security. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Jackson, Henry M. and Dorothy Fosdick. 1990. Henry M. Jackson and world affairs: selected speeches, 1953-1983. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Jackson, Henry M. 1979. China and the United States: report of Henry M. Jackson to the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Jackson, Henry M., and John C. Sawhill. 1973. Estimates and analysis of fuel supply outlook for 1974. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Jackson, Henry M. 1964. Fact, Fiction, and National Security. New York: MacFadden-Bartell Corp.
Jackson, Henry M. 1970. The Middle East and American security policy. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Kaufman, Robert G. 2000. Henry M. Jackson: a life in politics. The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Ognibene, Peter J. 1975. Scoop: the life and politics of Henry M. Jackson. New York: Stein and Day.
Prochnau, William W., and Richard W. Larsen. 1972. A certain Democrat: Senator Henry M. Jackson; a political biography. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Sussman, Robert. 1972. Henry M. Jackson, Democratic Senator from Washington. Washington, D.C.: Grossman.
Sanders, Jane. 1987. A legacy of public service: Henry M. Jackson, Warren G. Magnuson. Seattle: University of Washington Libraries.
Stern, Paula. 1979. Water's edge: domestic politics and the making of American foreign policy. Contributions in political science, no. 15. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
United States, and Henry M. Jackson. 1964. The Secretary of State and the Ambassador; Jackson Subcommittee papers on the conduct of American foreign policy. New York: Praeger.
United States. 1983. The China policy of Senator Henry M. Jackson: staff report to the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.
United States. 1983. Memorial services held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, together with tributes presented in eulogy of Henry M. Jackson, late a senator from Washington, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.
Pranger, Robert J. 1976. Detente and defense: a reader. Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
100 Washingtonians who've changed the world: Henry M. Jackson, Gypsy Rose Lee, William O. Douglas, Chief Joseph. 1988. Seattle, Wash: Evergreen Pub. Co.
The following web-based tools, including Presidential Libraries websites, are useful sources of biographical and historical information on Jackson and his times. In some instances they direct researchers to archival resources that supplement those found in the Henry M. Jackson Papers at the University of Washington. All of the websites listed below are freely available via the Internet.
- The
American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara
Containing over 75,000 documents relating to the history of the Presidency, the American Presidency Project is a comprehensive database of speeches, legislation, public papers, executive orders, and proclamations from George Washington to George W. Bush. The site also contains statistical data on elections and an audio/video archive.
- Congressional
Biographical Directory
Directory searchable by name, position, state, party, year, or congress. Includes biographical information on members of the Senate and House of Representatives from 1774 to the present.
- Dictionary
of Political Biography
Kavanagh, Dennis. 1998. Dictionary of Political Biography. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. This is available in Suzzallo Reference, D412 .D53 1998, but may also be accessed online by UW students and faculty. Contains over 1,000 biographical entries on men and women who were major political figures around the world in the twentieth century.
- National Archives
and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) holds the records of the House and Senate committees on which Jackson served, and those of other government departments and agencies with which he dealt while in the Congress.
- The Political
Graveyard
Contains short biographical information on individuals who have been involved in politics at both the state and federal levels. Database can be searched alphabetically, by political office, date or year, state and county, party, or political family.
- U.S. House of Representatives
The U.S. House of Representatives contains current information on Representatives and major Committees in the legislature. Also houses Thomas, a database for searching bills in the Congress.
- U.S.
Senate
The U.S. Senate contains information on current and past information on U.S. Senators and houses the Congressional Biographical Directory.
- Vanderbilt
Television News Archive, Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive database contains information on more than 30,000 network evening broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and covers major political and presidential campaigns, as well as national and international events.
- Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy Digital Library, Stanford University
Contains information and resources on the life of the Atomic Energy Commission, which existed from 1946-1977. Contains over 144,000 pages of source materials from the hearings that have been digitized into .pdf documents.
Presidential Libraries
Jackson's political career coincided with the terms of 9 US presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) through Ronald R. Reagan (1981-89). These nine presidential libraries and their associated websites provide access to additional archival and online resources relevant to the study of Jackson's career and legacy.
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