Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Three Tenant Families

Author: James Agee

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 15 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (New York Times)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 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published in 1941.This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and the rhythm of their lives is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest. Recognized today 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.With a bonus PDF of Walker Evans’s classic images, reproduced exactly as they are in the print edition, this book offers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.

Author Bio

James Agee (1909–1955) is the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression. Born in Tennessee, he died two years before the publication of A Death in the Family, his best-known work and winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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