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
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
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