The People's Choice (history Book)

	The People's Choice (history Book) ''The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding; A Study in Democracy'' is a book by historian Herbert Agar, published by Houghton Mifflin, 1933. It won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr .... 1933 non-fiction books Pulitzer Prize for History-winning works Books about presidents of the United States {{US-poli-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Herbert Agar Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 – 24 November 1980) was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the ''Louisville Courier-Journal''. Early life Herbert Sebastian Agar was born September 29, 1897 in New Rochelle, New York to John G. Agar and Agnes Louis Macdonough. He graduated from Columbia University in 1919 and received his master's degree from Princeton University in 1922 and Ph.D in 1924. Career Agar 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). He was also a strong proponent of an Americanized version of the British distributist socioeconomic system. Agar's 1950 book ''The Price of Union'' was one of John F. Kennedy's favorite books, and he kept a copy of it on his desk. A passage from ''The Price of Union'' about an act of courage by John Quincy Adams gave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Houghton Mifflin The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in ''the A* search algorithm'' or '' C-algebra''). In English, an asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in sans-serif typefaces, six-pointed in serif typefaces, and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor offensive words. In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication. History The asterisk has already been used as a symbol in ice age cave paintings. There is also a two thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the , , which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1934 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1934: Journalism awards Public Service: * ''Medford Mail Tribune'' (Oregon) for its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County, Oregon. * Reporting: Royce Brier of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' for his account of the lynching of the kidnappers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond in San Jose, California, on November 26, 1933, after they had been jailed for abducting Brooke Hart, a merchant's son. Honorable mentions:Part 2 of article * Eben A. Ayers, Andrew J. Clarke, and Edward J. Kelley of the Associated Press for "their vigilance and accuracy in covering the kidnapping of Margaret McMath at Harwichport, Massachusetts". * Edward J. Donohoe of the ''Times Leader'' (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) for "his able and convincing work in setting forth corruption in office on the part of members of the public school boards in Luzerne County". * H. Ellwood Douglass of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' for "his accoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pulitzer Prize For History The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize, from 1917, and its General Non-Fiction prize, from 1962. Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner. Winners In its first 97 years to 2013, the History Pulitzer was awarded 95 times. Two prizes were given in 1989; none in 1919, 1984, and 1994. Four people have won two each, Margaret Leech, Bernard Bailyn, Paul Horgan and Alan Taylor. * 1917: ''With Americans of Past and Present Days'' by Jean Jules Jusserand * 1918: '' A History of the Civil Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1933 Non-fiction Books Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pulitzer Prize For History-winning Works Pulitzer may refer to: Joseph Pulitzer, a 20th century media magnate Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism, literary, and music award Pulitzer (surname) Pulitzer, Inc., a U.S. newspaper chain Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization for journalists See also Politzer (other) Politz (other) Pollitz Pollitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Eu ... , Germany {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]