Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Three Tenant Families (Paperback, 1st Mariner Books ed)

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 of the rhythm of their lives was called intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and is "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times). Today it stands as a poetic tract of its time, recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue of Evans's classic images, reproduced from archival negatives, this sixtieth anniversary edition reintroduces the legendary author and photographer to a new generation.

General

Imprint:	Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2001
First published:	August 2001
Authors:	James Agee • Walker Evans
Dimensions:	228 x 155 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
Edition:	1st Mariner Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-618-12749-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > American history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > From 1900 > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-618-12749-6
Barcode:	9780618127498

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