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Thu, Aug 17, 2023 12:00PM EDT
Lot 288A

KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963). Why England Slept. With an Introduction by Henry R. Luce.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963). Why England Slept. With an Introduction by Henry R. Luce. New York: Wilfred Frunk, Inc., 1940. FIRST EDITION of Kennedy?s first published work, which was a thesis written in his first senior year at Harvard College on the subject of British appeasement policy toward Nazi Germany that was conceived as a follow-up to Churchill?s While England Slept.