In June 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been president of the United States for almost two and a half years. That spring he is grappling with the two seismic forces of the early 1960s: the proliferation of nuclear arms and the struggle for civil rights. On two consecutive days, in two lyrical addresses, he appeals to Americans to see both the Russians and the “Negroes” as human beings. His speech on June 10 leads to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the first arms control agreement of the era. His speech on June 11 leads to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a watershed in American history.
Based largely on hours of unseen documentary film shot in the White House and the Justice Department on these two days, as well as fresh interviews and a rediscovered draft speech, Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History elegantly captures Kennedy at the high noon of his presidency in new, rich, granular detail.
Andrew Cohen is an award-winning journalist and former Washington correspondent whom the New York Times has called one of “Canada’s most distinguished authors.” He attended Choate Rosemary Hall, McGill University, and the University of Cambridge. Among his best-selling books are While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non- Fiction, which in 2010 was named one of the top 12 Canadian political books of the last 25 years, and The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are. He has written for United Press International, Time, the Financial Times of London, and the Globe and Mail from London, Berlin, Toronto and Ottawa, where he is a professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University. Cohen writes a nationally-syndicated column and appears as regular commentator on television and radio.
"Because of Andrew Cohen's achievement in Two Days in June, no one will ever be able to write about -- no one will ever be able to think about -- John F. Kennedy ever again in the same way." David Shribman, Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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