![KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, President. Autograph letter signed (“John F. Kennedy”), to S.T. Williamson. Hyannisport, Massachusetts, n.p. [12] August 1940. 1p., 8vo, 7 x 5 ½ in. on personal stationery. [With a reprint of the review in The New York Times.]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_12436_0134_000(kennedy_john_fitzgerald_president_autograph_letter_signed_to_st_willia053322).jpg?w=1)
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KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, President. Autograph letter signed (“John F. Kennedy”), to S.T. Williamson. Hyannisport, Massachusetts, n.p. [12] August 1940. 1p., 8vo, 7 x 5 ½ in. on personal stationery. [With a reprint of the review in The New York Times.]
PRAISE FOR KENNEDY’S RECENTLY PUBLISHED “WHY ENGLAND SLEPT” reviewed by Williamson in The New York Times Book Review, August 11, 1940. In response to the very complementary review Kennedy writes: “Dear Mr. Williamson: I thought I would write and thank you for your very kind review of my book last Sunday. I was very interested to read it and I appreciate your friendly comment.”
Based on his Harvard thesis, Kennedy’s first book turned out to be a critical success as well as a best-seller, with a foreword by media mogul Henry R. Luce. Williamson enthuses that Kennedy “has written a book of such painstaking scholarship, and mature understanding and fair-mindedness and of such penetrating and timely conclusions, that it is a notable textbook for our times...”
PRAISE FOR KENNEDY’S RECENTLY PUBLISHED “WHY ENGLAND SLEPT” reviewed by Williamson in The New York Times Book Review, August 11, 1940. In response to the very complementary review Kennedy writes: “Dear Mr. Williamson: I thought I would write and thank you for your very kind review of my book last Sunday. I was very interested to read it and I appreciate your friendly comment.”
Based on his Harvard thesis, Kennedy’s first book turned out to be a critical success as well as a best-seller, with a foreword by media mogul Henry R. Luce. Williamson enthuses that Kennedy “has written a book of such painstaking scholarship, and mature understanding and fair-mindedness and of such penetrating and timely conclusions, that it is a notable textbook for our times...”