Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families Audiobook

Quotes

• “Renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality and for the way Evans’ spare, tautly composed images and Agee’s more extravagant prose complement and enhance each other.”

  — New York Times 

• “A work of art.”

  — The Guardian (London)

• “A unique and enduring mashup of reporting, confession, and oracular prose that sometimes takes your breath away…Profound, illuminating, and unforgettable.”

  — Daily Beast

• “One of the most brutally revealing records of an America that was ignored by society—a class of people whose level of poverty left them as spiritually, mentally, and physically worn as the land on which they toiled. Time has done nothing to decrease this book’s power.”

  — Library Journal

• “Agee’s text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering…a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery.”

  — Amazon.com

• “[The] most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.”

  — Lionel Trilling, American literary critic, author, and teacher