Английская Википедия:Herbert Agar
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person 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) Шаблон:ISBN[9]
- Land of the Free (1935)[10]
- Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (contributor and co-editor with Allen Tate) (1936) Шаблон:ISBN[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) Шаблон:ISBN[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
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- ↑ 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 KennedyШаблон:Dead link
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- ↑ Ted Sorensen, Joanne J. Myers (2008). Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (Private Lunch) Шаблон:Webarchive, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
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