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Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 in New Rochelle, New York - 24 November 1980 in Sussex, England) was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the ''Louisville Courier-Journal''. He 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).〔Joshua P. Hochschild (2000). (Review of ''Who Owns America?'' ), ''First Things''.〕 He was also a strong proponent of an Americanized version of the British distributist socioeconomic system.〔William Fahey (2002). (Preface to Vincent McNabb, ''The Church and the Land'' (1926) )〕 Agar's 1950 book ''The Price of Union'' was one of John F. Kennedy's favorite books,〔(Favorite Books of President Kennedy )〕 and he kept a copy of it on his desk.〔(The President's Desk, Page 2 )〕 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).〔Ted Sorensen, Joanne J. Myers (2008). (''Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History'' (Private Lunch) ), Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.〕 ==Quotes== *“The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” *“Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.” *“This is the affirmation on which democracy rests … ()e can all be responsible … We become what we do. So does the world we live in, if enough of us do it - whether “it” be good or detestable. This is the burden of freedom: that it is all our fault or our credit, (“The Perils of Democracy”; Dufour Editions; 1966, at p11)” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Agar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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