Herbert Agar - Wikipedia

Herbert Sebastian Agar (New Rochelle, 29 settembre 1897 – Sussex, 24 novembre 1980) è stato uno storico e giornalista statunitense.

Biografia

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Nato a New Rochelle, nello stato statunitense di New York, studiò alla Columbia University dove terminò gli studi nel 1919.^[1] Ottenne un Master degree alla Princeton University in New Jersey, come giornalista lavorò nel Louisville Courier-Journal.

Nel 1933 venne premiato con il premio Pulitzer per la storia per la sua opera The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding — A Study in Democracy .

Opere

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Milton and Plato (1928)
The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding — A Study in Democracy (1933)
Land of the Free (1935)
Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (1936)
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)
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)

Citazioni

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- A time for Greatness (1942)

"La verità che permette agli uomini di essere liberi è in buona misura una verità che gli uomini preferiscono non sentire"

Note

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^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, American history awards 1917-1991: from colonial settlements to the civil rights movement, Volume 7, pag 73, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 978-3-598-30177-3.

Collegamenti esterni

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(EN) Opere di Herbert Agar, su Open Library, Internet Archive.

V · D · M Vincitori del premio Pulitzer per la storia
1917–1925	Jean Jules Jusserand (1917) • James Ford Rhodes (1918) • Justin Harvey Smith (1920) • William Sowden Sims e Burton Jesse Hendrick (1921) • James Truslow Adams (1922) • Charles Warren (1923) • Charles Howard McIlwain (1924) • Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
1926–1950	Edward Channing (1926) • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927) • Vernon Louis Parrington (1928) • Fred Albert Shannon (1929) • Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1930) • Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1931) • John Pershing (1932) • Frederick Jackson Turner (1933) • Herbert Agar (1934) • Charles McLean Andrews (1935) • Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1936) • Van Wyck Brooks (1937) • Paul Herman Buck (1938) • Frank Luther Mott (1939) • Carl Sandburg (1940) • Marcus Lee Hansen (1941) • Margaret Leech (1942) • Esther Forbes (1943) • Merle Curti (1944) • Stephen Bonsal (1945) • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946) • James Phinney Baxter III (1947) • Bernard DeVoto (1948) • Roy Franklin Nichols (1949) • Oliver Waterman Larkin (1950)
1951–1975	Roscoe Carlyle Buley (1951) • Oscar Handlin (1952) • George Dangerfield (1953) • Bruce Catton (1954) • Paul Horgan (1955) • Richard Hofstadter (1956) • George Frost Kennan (1957) • Bray Hammond (1958) • Leonard Dupee White e Jean Schneider (1959) • Margaret Leech (1960) • Herbert Feis (1961) • Lawrence Henry Gipson (1962) • Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) • Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) • Irwin Unger (1965) • Perry Miller (1966) • William Goetzmann (1967) • Bernard Bailyn (1968) • Leonard Levy (1969) • Dean Acheson (1970) • James MacGregor Burns (1971) • Carl Degler (1972) • Michael Kammen (1973) • Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) • Dumas Malone (1975)
1976–2000	Paul Horgan (1976) • David Morris Potter (1977) • Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978) • Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1979) • Leon Litwack (1980) • Lawrence A. Cremin (1981) • C. Vann Woodward (1982) • Rhys Isaac (1983) • Thomas K. McCraw (1985) • Walter A. McDougall (1986) • Bernard Bailyn (1987) • Robert Bruce (1988) • James M. McPherson e Taylor Branch (1989) • Stanley Karnow (1990) • Laurel Ulrich (1991) • Mark Neely, Jr. (1992) • Gordon Wood (1993) • Doris Goodwin (1995) • Alan Taylor (1996) • Jack Rakove (1997) • Edward Larson (1998) • Edwin Burrows e Mike Wallace (1999) • David Kennedy (2000)
2001–2025	Joseph Ellis (2001) • Louis Menand (2002) • Rick Atkinson (2003) • Steven Hahn (2004) • David Fischer (2005) • David Oshinsky (2006) • Gene Roberts e Hank Klibanoff (2007) • Daniel Howe (2008) • Annette Gordon-Reed (2009) • Liaquat Ahamed (2010) • Eric Foner (2011) • Manning Marable (2012) • Fredrik Logevall (2013) • Alan Taylor (2014) • Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015) • T.J. Stiles (2016) • Heather Ann Thompson (2017) • Jack E. Davis (2018) • David W. Blight (2019) • W. Caleb McDaniel (2020) • Marcia Chatelain (2021) • Nicole Eustace e Ada Ferrer (2022) • Jefferson Cowie (2023) • Jacqueline Jones (2024)

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 109069838 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 0932 5272 · LCCN (EN) n50040629 · GND (DE) 122726847 · BNE (ES) XX1024275 (data) · BNF (FR) cb127766513 (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007257565305171

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