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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by Walker Evans ; James Agee
ISBN: 0618127496
ISBN-13: 9780618127498
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also served as a new model for this sort of nonfiction writing, presenting full and reverent portraits of three families in every aspect of their lives, rather than recording mere social statistics.
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"Philosophy, narrative, satire, cultural history, and autobiography." -- Dwight MacDonald
"The most realistic and the most important moral effort of our American generation." -- Lionel Trilling
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published date: 2001
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.6 pounds
Publisher's Notes
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.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
Agee, James, and Evans, Walker (Photographer); Hersey, John (Introduction by)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Mariner Books, 2001 liv, 471 pp., [61] pp. of plates, illus.; 22 cm. VG. Gift inscription/title page, otherwise tight & clean. Appears unread. Depression-era classic on sharecroppers, with stunning photographs by Walker Evans. Born in Tennessee, James Agee (1909-1955) spent the summer of 1936 with photographer Walker Evans among the sharecroppers of Alabama, which resulted in the famous collaborative book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote poetry, screenwriting, and film criticism. . 6th printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Evans, Walker; Agee, James
Mariner Books, 2001. Paperback. New. Pages and cover have no marks, bends or tears. Binding tight & uncreased. Never read. Not a remainder. ( more information) Offered by PAV Books (United States)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Agee, James and Walker Evans
Mariner Books, 2001 soft cover. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Bookman (United States)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Agee, James and Evans, Walker
Boston, Massachussetts: Mariner Books, 2001 Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by South of France Books (France)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee, Walker Evans
Paperback. Brand New, Never Used, Perfect Condition. Orders take 5-7 days to process and ship. ( more information) Offered by PapaMedia.com (United States)
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