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 People I've Slept With a rating of 27% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. Film critic Frank Scheck of the "Associated Press" wrote in his review for "The Hollywood Reporter": "Largely devoid of the sex-farce style comic wit to which it aspires, the film is palatable largely because of the charm of lead actress Cheung, who manages to make her character appealing even while she's behaving in a manner that would embarrass the horny male teens in the American Pie movies." "The People I've Slept With" was released in October 2009 at the São Paulo International Film Festival. The film