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Sep 22, 2022 · This week, Alyson talks about JFK’s thesis-turned-book, “Why England Slept”. Buy "Why England Slept": https://amzn.to/3S4YtHD Listen on Apple Podcasts:...
- 19 min
- 456
- Kennedy Dynasty Podcast
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.
Kennedy's book examines the failures of the British government to take steps to prevent World War II and its initial lack of response to Adolf Hitler's threats of war.
- John F. Kennedy
- 1940
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 menace. As a...
- John F. Kennedy
- reprint
- Stephen C. Schlesinger
- Why England Slept
Why England slept [by] John F. Kennedy
In the age of Trump, we find ourselves living in a post-factual world where history and facts are ignored. In reading WHY ENGLAND SLEPT, we can see the advantage a President might have to lead based on his knowledge of the past as well as understanding of present day world events.
This folder contains a typescript of John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept, the published version of his Harvard University senior thesis on the subject of British appeasement policy toward Nazi Germany.
