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 Rise of Iskander 'Peace with Honour'." The Rise of Iskander The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. "The Rise of Iskander" was written in Bath, England in the winter of 1832-3. It is based on the life of George Castriota, better known as Scanderbeg a prince and national hero of Albania which Disraeli had visited two years earlier on his Grand Tour. It was published in London in 1833 together with The Wondrous Tale of Alroy Iskander was a young prince when his father’s kingdom (Epirus) was taken over