Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans, James Agee

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Walker Evans, James Agee

512 pages first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction classics history emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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In the summer of 1936, Agee and 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 ...

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