Why England Slept US$40,000 in royalties for Kennedy. Those from the British sales were donated to Plymouth, England, recently bombed by the Luftwaffe, while Kennedy bought a Buick convertible with his income from the book's North-American sales. Joseph Kennedy had initially approached Harold Laski to write the book's foreword, but Laski declined, feeling that it was "the book of an immature mind; that if it hadn't been written by the son of a very rich man, he wouldn't have found a publisher." Why England Slept Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his
The Mass Psychology of Fascism tourist on a ski trip to Austria. Reich was expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1934 for political militancy. The book was ordered to be burned on request of the Food and Drug Administration by a judge in Maine, United States in 1956, amongst other works by Reich. Chapter V contains the famous statement that the family is the first cell of the fascist society: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari reprised Reich arguments in their joint work "Anti-Oedipus" (1972), in which they discuss the formation of fascism at the molecular level of society. The Mass Psychology of Fascism The