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Cold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

 America has always been the dominating presence in the Americas. Canada, though geographically equally big, does not command the same presence. New documents released recently around the Cuban Missile Crisis and other indicate Canada played an important role all through the cold war and even influenced Kennedy’s actions in Vietnam. Did his arguments with Prime Minister Diefenbaker have anything to do with his assassination in Dallas?

Cold FireCold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

Author: John Boyko
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf Canada (February 2, 2016)
ISBN: 0345808932, 978-0345808936
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John Boyko explores these and other historical incidents that looks behind US-Canada relation at the time. Relation between Diefenbaker and Eisenhower and then later between Diefenbaker and Kennedy.

COLD FIRE: KENNEDY’S NORTHERN FRONT By John Boyko Alfred A. Knopf Canada, $30, 384 pages Canada and the United States have historically been great friends, allies and trading partners. Relations between the two countries have faced occasional bumps in the road, and witnessed some short-lived layers of ice. By and large, they’ve built a successful strategic…