Bibliograph

Let us now praise famous men, three tenant families, James Agee, Walker Evans

Type

Label

Let us now praise famous men, three tenant families, James Agee, Walker Evans

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Let us now praise famous men

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

James Agee, Walker Evans

Sub title

three tenant families

Summary

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today-recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century-it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Three tenant families

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