Let
Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
By Agee, James
Pub Date: 02/89
Publisher: Mariner Books
Binding: Trade Paper, 471pp.
ISBN: 0395488974
Our Price $16.95
Pub Date: 04/00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Binding: Hard Cover
Status: Available
ISBN: 0395957710
Our Price $30.00
Annotation
Agee's
colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation
of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this
literary classic. 64 pages of photos.
The
Reader's Catalog
The 1941 classic
about cotton-farming tenantry among white sharecroppers, told through
Agee's poetic prose and Evans's stark photographs
Publisher
A watershed
literary event at its first publication in 1941, Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men is an "unsparing record of the harsh existence of three
Alabama families, and a poetic meditation on the terrible beauty of
their lives", recognized by the New York Public Library as one of
the most influential books of the century.
Let
Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families