From the author of the “insightful and well-crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) Kennedy and King comes a heart-wrenching and sensitive examination of the tragic loss of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s premature son, Patrick, and how their shared grief brought them closer together in the months leading up to his assassination. 

Steven Levingston was senior editor and nonfiction book editor for The Washington Post. He is the author of Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership; Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights; and Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris. Before editing and writing for The Washington Post, Levingston was business editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, and an Asia correspondent in Hong Kong and a financial reporter in New York for The Wall Street Journal. His work has also appeared in Time, The Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, Reader’s Digest, and The Boston Globe Magazine. He has been featured on PBS NewsHour, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, C-SPAN, and in the Netflix documentary Amend. He founded and directed Boston University’s business journalism program.