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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.
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"I found this book very interesting as it was an historical account of a culture different to mine. The writer is very descriptive. The poverty quite confronting. Narration was easy to listen to."
— Rach58 (5 out of 5 stars)
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“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.”
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“A work of art.”
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“A unique and enduring mashup of reporting, confession, and oracular prose that sometimes takes your breath away…Profound, illuminating, and unforgettable.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“[The] most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.”
— Lionel Trilling, American literary critic, author, and teacher
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A New York Public Library 150 Most Important Books of the 20th Century
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About James Agee
James Agee (1909–1955) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He worked as a reporter and critic for Fortune, Time, the Nation, and other magazines and wrote for film and television. His books include the volume of poems Permit Me Voyage; two novels, The Morning Watch and A Death in the Family; the nonfiction work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; and several collections of correspondence, reviews, and film scripts. A Death in the Family, his best known work, was published posthumously and won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
About Lloyd James
Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico.