Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Herbert Agar

Born: September 29, 1897
Died: November 24, 1980 (aged 83)
Bio: Herbert Sebastian Agar 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.
Known for:
- The Price of Power: America Since 1945 (1957)
- Time and Tide
- Saving remnant (1960)
- The perils of democracy (1965)






