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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Book 1941 (begun in 1936) by US writer James Agee and US photographer Walker Evans. Agee's impressionistic prose and Evans' stark pictures record the dignified poverty of three Southern white cotton farmers during the Depression. It is a unique work of social documentary.
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For example, Folks's analysis of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men probes how the effects of Agee's sense of his own inadequacies and his feelings toward his parents shaped his text.
From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern ... by Page, Philip / African American Review
Their memorable record of a subsistence existence which seemed unimaginably far removed from the thrusting material and social progressiveness of twentieth-century American life was eventually published in 1941 as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
RURAL MISSION by SLESSOR, CATHERINE / The Architectural Review
And my inspiration for Out of the Dust, Lucille Burroughs, who stared out at me from the pages of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, imploring me to tell her story, even if I had to make it up.
Newbery Medal acceptance by The Horn Book Magazine
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