Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

ISBN-10: 0395488974
ISBN-13: 9780395488973
Series: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Pages: 471
Language: English
Published: 1988
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Authors: James Agee, Walker Evans

Description

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.