Tate and Herbert Agar in 1936 put together a symposium entitled "Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence" (Houghton Mifflin); the 21 contributors included eight Agrarians, three economists, a woman psychologist, and an English Distributist. The book made the bestseller list; it was reissued in 1999 by ISI Books. In 1936 also Scribner's published Tate's "Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Idea"; Maxwell Perkins, editor to both Tate and Caroline Gordon, told Tate, "It is an honor to publish this book."