JFK'S "WHY ENGLAND SLEPT" PUBLISHED
New York City (JFK+50) On August 1, 1940, twenty-three year old John F. Kennedy's first book was published here in New York City by Funk, Inc.
The book, Why England Slept, was adapted from Mr. Kennedy's senior thesis at Harvard University. JFK's work was an analysis of Great Britain's delay in building up its military while Adolf Hitler's Third Reich was in the process of rearming.
Henry R. Luce writes in the introduction...
"In recent months there has been a certain amount of alarm concerning the 'attitude' of the younger generation. If John Kennedy is characteristic of the younger generation--and I believe he is--many of us would be happy to have the destiny of the Republic handed over to his generation at once."
Why England Slept sold 80,000 copies in Great Britain and the United States. Proceeds from sales in the U.K. were donated to the town of Plymouth which had been bombed by the German air force.
According to a 2005 book review available at www.TaoYue.com...
"Kennedy's articulate style forms a lucid account of all the facts and occasionally flashes into a foreshadowing of future brilliance."
SOURCE
"Signed copy of JFK book Why England Slept, meant as present for Queen Elizabeth before his assassination, to go under the hammer," Daily Mail, December 6, 2013, www.dailymail.co.uk/
New York City (JFK+50) On August 1, 1940, twenty-three year old John F. Kennedy's first book was published here in New York City by Funk, Inc.
The book, Why England Slept, was adapted from Mr. Kennedy's senior thesis at Harvard University. JFK's work was an analysis of Great Britain's delay in building up its military while Adolf Hitler's Third Reich was in the process of rearming.
Henry R. Luce writes in the introduction...
"In recent months there has been a certain amount of alarm concerning the 'attitude' of the younger generation. If John Kennedy is characteristic of the younger generation--and I believe he is--many of us would be happy to have the destiny of the Republic handed over to his generation at once."
Why England Slept sold 80,000 copies in Great Britain and the United States. Proceeds from sales in the U.K. were donated to the town of Plymouth which had been bombed by the German air force.
According to a 2005 book review available at www.TaoYue.com...
"Kennedy's articulate style forms a lucid account of all the facts and occasionally flashes into a foreshadowing of future brilliance."
SOURCE
"Signed copy of JFK book Why England Slept, meant as present for Queen Elizabeth before his assassination, to go under the hammer," Daily Mail, December 6, 2013, www.dailymail.co.uk/
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