"A good book with a special interest for English readers... I hope it will have the widest possible circulation."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersHistorians from the United StatesColumbia University alumniJournalists from New York (state)Princeton University alumni
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E. L. Woodward, review of A Time For Greatness, quoted in The Times (1 April 1943), p. 3
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Herbert Agar
Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 β 24 November 1980) was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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