Porter Sargent

Sargent's interests gradually expanded into many fields. Moehlman wrote that in the 1940s, because of Sargent's writings, the annual critiques and other solid books, including one of poetry, that pour steadily from Porter Sargent's pen have developed a growing and regular audience. More than ten thousand people buy his books every year, and an estimated forty thousand more look over their shoulders to read without meeting the admission price.

The Saturday Review of Literature, reviewing Sargent's War and Education in 1943, wrote that "Every guild needs its gadfly, and none more than the teaching profession." It stated that readers of the book "will be shocked or delighted according to their temperaments."

After Sargent's death in 1951, his son F. Porter Sargent (1915–1975) assumed leadership of the Porter Sargent publishing house.

Written works (selected) New immoralities: clearing 'the way for a new ethics. Boston:Porter Sargent, 1935. What makes lives. Boston:Porter Sargent, 1940. War and education. Boston:Porter Sargent, 1943. Between two wars; the failure of education, 1920–1940. Boston:Porter Sargent, 1945. The future of education. Boston:Porter Sargent, 1945.