Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
- ISBN-10
- 0618127496
- ISBN-13
- 9780618127498
- Series
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Authors
- James Agee, Walker Evans
Description
An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty.
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