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American journalist and historian
Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 – 24 November 1980) was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal .
Early life
Herbert Sebastian Agar was born September 29, 1897, in
New Rochelle ,
New York to
John G. Agar and Agnes Louis Macdonough.
[1] He graduated from
Columbia University in 1919 and received his master's degree from
Princeton University in 1922 and Ph.D. in 1924.
[2]
Career
Agar won the
Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934 for his 1933 book
The People's Choice , a critical look at the American presidency. Agar was associated with the
Southern Agrarians and edited, with
Allen Tate , Who Owns America? (1936).
[3] He was also a strong proponent of an Americanized version of the British
distributist socioeconomic system.
[4]
Agar's 1950 book The Price of Union was one of
John F. Kennedy 's favorite books,
[5] and he kept a copy of it on his desk.
[6] A passage from The Price of Union about an act of courage by
John Quincy Adams gave Kennedy the idea of writing an article about senatorial courage. He showed the passage to his speechwriter
Ted Sorensen and asked him to see if he could find some more examples. This Sorensen did, and eventually they had enough for a book, the
Pulitzer Prize -winning
Profiles in Courage (1956).
[7]
Personal life and death
On June 8, 1945, Agar married Barbara Wallace, the daughter of the architect Sir
Edwin Lutyens and the widow of
Euan Wallace , a former British
Minister of Transport .
[8]
Agar died on November 24, 1980, in
Sussex , England, where he had lived since World War II.
[2]
Works
Milton and Plato (1928)
The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding — A Study in Democracy (1933)
ISBN
978-0-9665734-0-4
[9]
Land of the Free (1935)
[10]
Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (contributor and co-editor with
Allen Tate ) (1936)
ISBN
978-1-882926-37-4
[11]
The Pursuit of Happiness: The Story of American Democracy (1938)
[12]
A Time for Greatness (1942)
[13]
The Price of Union: The Influence of the American Temper on the Course of History (1950)
[12]
Abraham Lincoln (1952)
[14]
The Unquiet Years: U.S.A. 1945–1955 (1957)
[15]
The Price of Power: America Since 1945 (1957)
ISBN
978-0-226-00937-7
[16]
The Saving Remnant: An Account of Jewish Survival Since 1914 (1960)
[17]
The Perils of Democracy (1965)
[18]
The Darkest Year: Britain Alone, June 1940 - June 1941 (1972)
[19]
References
^
"JOHN G. AGAR, 79, LAWYER, IS DEAD; Ex-Member of Westchester County Park Board Once a Reform Leader Here" . Retrieved 2016-11-30 .
^
a
b
"HERBERT AGAR DIES; AUTHOR AND EDITOR; Wrote Prolifically on the American Democratic Heritage--Won Pulitzer Prize in History A Champion of Democratic Ideals Correspondent and Columnist" . Retrieved 2016-11-30 .
^ Joshua P. Hochschild (2000).
Review of Who Owns America? ,
First Things .
^ William Fahey (2002).
Preface to Vincent McNabb, The Church and the Land (1926)
^
Favorite Books of President Kennedy [
permanent dead link ]
^
"The President's Desk, Page 2" . Archived from
the original on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2010-08-19 .
^ Ted Sorensen, Joanne J. Myers (2008).
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (Private Lunch)
Archived 2009-10-13 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs .
^
"COMDR. HERBERT AGAR TO MARRY IN LONDON" . Retrieved 2016-11-30 .
^ Agar, Herbert (1933-01-01).
The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding; a Study in Democracy . Houghton Mifflin Comp.
^ Agar, Herbert (1935-01-01).
Land of the Free . Houghton Mifflin.
^ Agar, Herbert; Tate, Allen (1999-01-01).
Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of Independence . ISI Books.
ISBN
9781882926374 .
^
a
b Agar, Herbert (30 November 1949).
The Price Of Union . Houghton Mifflin Company.
^ Agar, Herbert (1942-01-01).
A Time for Greatness . Little, Brown.
^ Agar, Herbert (1952-01-01).
Abraham Lincoln . Collins.
^ Agar, Herbert (1957-01-01).
The Unquiet Years: U. S. A. 1945-1955 . Hart-Davis.
^ Agar, Herbert (1957-08-15).
The Price of Power: America Since 1945 . University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
9780226009377 .
^ Agar, Herbert (1962-01-01).
The Saving Remnant: An Account of Jewish Survival . Viking Press.
^ Agar, Herbert (1965-06-01).
The perils of democracy . Bodley Head.
ISBN
9780802310019 .
^ Agar, Herbert (1972-01-01).
The darkest year: Britain alone, June 1940-June 1941 . Doubleday.
ISBN
9780385045001 .
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