Why England Slept "The New York Times," to assist in redrafting the thesis, which had originally been titled "Appeasement At Munich". The writer Garry Wills claims that this assistance amounted to rewriting and retitling the manuscript, as well as finding an agent for its publication. As ambassador to Britain, Kennedy, Sr. supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement during the late 1930s. John F. Kennedy lived with his father in Britain at that time and as such witnessed the Luftwaffe's bombings of Britain first-hand. After publication in 1940, the book sold 80,000 copies in the United Kingdom and the United States, collecting
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