Why England Slept.
KENNEDY, John F.
Why England Slept.
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on": First Edition of Why England Slept; SIGNed by Jack Kennedy
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.
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First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the author, “Jack Kennedy” on the dedication page in a contemporary signature. Light rubbing and wear, an excellent example in a very good dust jacket with some chips and wear to the extremities.
Published the year Kennedy graduated from Harvard, Why England Slept was an expansion of his senior thesis. The title is a variation on the title of Winston Churchill’s work, While England Slept, published about two years before Kennedy’s. It was dedicated to John's parents, Rose and Joe Kennedy. In this work he attempts to explain why England was so poorly prepared for World War II and why England’s leaders settled upon the disastrous policies of appeasement. The book served as a warning to those in our country who felt that appeasing Hitler and staying out of the war was a viable option. It became a bestseller in the United States and went through several printings in its first year(Newcomb, 10).
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