John F. Kennedy Publishes His Senior Thesis, "Appeasement in Munich", as a Book Entitled 'Why England Slept'

IMAGINE that as a young man in college you wrote a book of judgment on the behavior of a contemporary empire, its leaders and its people . . .

Imagine that twenty years later, when you are still young, you become President of the United States at a time when America faces grim possibilities of destruction and surrender . . .

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