Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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)