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
Why Marry? play which is perhaps the most intelligent and searching satire on social institutions ever written by an American." Brenda Murphy wrote: "The presentattion of the first Pulitzer Prize for drama...for his sophisticated discussion play "Why Marry?" was the first clear sign that realism had arrived in the American theater...[the] play combined the ...traditional subjects of the American discussion play with the Shavian notion that serious points about serious issues could be made through witty dialogue and comic, even farcical, action." Why Marry? Why Marry? is a 1917 play written by American playwright Jesse Lynch Williams. It won the first Pulitzer