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
British Fascism that British Fascism is rooted within British traditions. British Fascism claims that both its economic and its political agenda intends to embody that of Tudor England. It claims that its advocacy of a centralized national authoritarian state is based upon the Tudor state's hostility to party factions and self-interested sectional interests, and its goal of national integration through a centralised authoritarian state. They claim that the Tudor state was a prototype fascist state. British Fascist A.L. Glasfurd praised Henry VIII's subjugation of "lawless barons who had brought about the War of the Roses" and praised the "Tudor dictatorship" for its