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Why England Slept (1940) is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title is an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.
- John F. Kennedy
- 1940
Oct 28, 2013 · They set out to write the story of Kennedy’s early years up to his becoming Senator in 1953. They became convinced that the standard biographies of Kennedy slighted or distorted these years, but they were stymied by the refusal of the Kennedy Library to release relevant documents.
Mar 5, 2020 · In Why England Slept, the author discusses democracy versus dictatorship, the psychology of a nation's people, defense expenditures, disarmament and rearmament, appeasement, pacifism, the role of capitalism in England's unpreparedness, and the penalty of Munich--among other things.
America was still at peace when John F. Kennedy was a senior at Harvard writing WHY ENGLAND SLEPT. Within its pages, JFK outlined the varying factors that led to England's ill-preparedness in the years that led up to the Second World War.
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In Why England Slept, the author discusses democracy versus dictatorship, the psychology of a nation's people, defense expenditures, disarmament and rearmament, appeasement, pacifism, the role...
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- W. Funk, 1961
- 2, reprint
- Why England Slept
The premise of his thesis was that no one politician was responsible for the unpreparedness of England, rather, it was its political system- a democracy that failed to come to grips early enough with the threat the Nazis posed.
In 1940, while acting as secretary to his ambassador father in London, he wrote Why England Slept, an interpretation of England's failure to recognize the danger of the Nazi...
