The People's Choice

Herbert Sebastian Agar (1897-1980) was an American journalist, historian, and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The People's Choice (1933), a critical study of American presidents from Washington to Harding, and The Price of Union (1950), which influenced John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Born in New Rochelle, New York, he graduated from Columbia University and earned advanced degrees from Princeton, later becoming associated with the Southern Agrarians and advocating distributist ideas. Read more →