Herbert Agar

Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 in New Rochelle, New York - 24 November 1980 in Sussex, England) was an American announcer and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934 for his book The People's Choice, a analytical attending at the American presidency. Agar was associated with the Southern Agrarians and edited, with Allen Tate, Who Owns America? (1936).1 He was additionally a able backer of an Americanized adaptation of the British distributist socioeconomic system.2

Agar's book The Price of Union was one of John F. Kennedy's admired books,3 and he commonly kept a archetype of it on his desk.4 A access from The Price of Union about an act of adventuresomeness by John Quincy Adams gave Kennedy the abstraction of autograph an commodity about aldermanic courage. He showed the access to his speechwriter Ted Sorensen and asked him to see if he could acquisition some added examples. This Sorensen did, and eventually they had abundant for a book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage.5

Big Society

The Big Association was the flagship action abstraction of the 2010 UK Conservative Party accepted acclamation manifesto. Some distributists affirmation that this action was afflicted by aphorisms of the distributist credo and promotes distributism.20 It now forms allotment of the aldermanic programme of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement.21 The declared aim is "to actualize a altitude that empowers bounded bodies and communities, architecture a big association that will 'take ability abroad from politicians and accord it to people'.".22

Quotes

“The accuracy which makes men chargeless is for the best allotment the accuracy which men adopt not to hear.”

“Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are burst too often, the acculturation dies, no amount how affluent it may be, or how mechanically clever. Achievement and acceptance depend on the promises; if achievement and acceptance go, aggregate goes.”

Works

Milton and Plato (1928)

The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding — A Study in Democracy (1933) ISBN 978-0966573404

Land of the Free (1935)

Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (contributor, co-editor) (1936) ISBN 978-1882926374

The Pursuit of Happiness: The Story of American Democracy (1938)

A Time for Greatness (1942)

The Price of Union: The Influence of the American Temper on the Course of History (1950)

Abraham Lincoln (1952)

The Unquiet Years: USA, 1945-1955 (1957)

The Price of Power: America Since 1945 (1957) ISBN 978-0226009377

The Saving Remnant: An Account of Jewish Survival Since 1914 (1960)

The Perils of Democracy (1968)

The Darkest Year: Britain Alone, June 1940 - June 1941 (1973)