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TIL JFK’s senior thesis, which defends Britain’s pre-WWII actions, actions JFK’s father, Ambassador to Britain at the time, supported, sold 80000 copies. Political theorist Harold Laski declined writing a foreword, stating the book was immature and only being published because of the writer's father

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