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 Doctrine of Fascism The Doctrine of Fascism "The Doctrine of Fascism" () is an essay attributed to Benito Mussolini. In truth, the first part of the essay, entitled "" () was written by philosopher Giovanni Gentile, while only the second part () is the work of Mussolini himself. It was first published in the "Enciclopedia Italiana" of 1932, as the first section of a lengthy entry on ""Fascismo"" (). The entire entry on Fascism spans pages 847–884 of the "Enciclopedia Italiana", and includes numerous photographs and graphic images. The Mussolini essay leads off with the entry: The second section of the essay is