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Let us now praise famous men. ([An investigation into the plight of] three tenant families [in the Southern States of the U.S.A.])

"...The classic work based on a 1936 journalistic assignment.... The book is an account of the actual daily lives of three families of tenant farmers, (more popularly known as 'sharecroppers'), which are more or less representative of their class in the year 1936."...from Public library Catalog.

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  • ""...The classic work based on a 1936 journalistic assignment.... The book is an account of the actual daily lives of three families of tenant farmers, (more popularly known as 'sharecroppers'), which are more or less representative of their class in the year 1936."...from Public library Catalog."@en
  • "Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South."@en
  • "The American classic, in words and photographs, of three tenant families in the deep South. Published nearly sixty years ago, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men stands as an undisputed American masterpiece, taking its place alongside works by Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. In a stunning blend of prose and images, this classic offers at once an unforgettable portrait of three tenant families in the Deep South and a larger meditation on human dignity and the American soul. 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. There they lived with three different families for a month; the result of their stay was an extraordinary collaboration, an unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives. Upon its first book publication in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was called intensely moving, unrelentingly honest. It described a mode of life -- and rural poverty -- that was unthinkably remote and tragic to most Americans, and yet for Agee and Evans, only extreme realism could serve to make the world fully aware of such circumstances. Today it stands as a poetic tract for its time, a haunting search for the human and religious meaning in the lives of true Southern heroes: in their waking, sleeping, eating; their work; their houses and children; and their endurance. With an elegant design and a sixty-four-page photographic prologue of Evans's stunning images, reproduced from archival negatives, the new edition introduces the legendary author and photographer to a new generation. Both an invaluable part of the American heritage and a graceful tribute to the vibrant souls whose stories live in these pages, this book has profoundly changed our culture and our consciousness -- and will continue to inspire for generations to come."@en
  • "Discusses the rural conditions of Alabama in the first half fo the 19th century by following the lives of three tenant families."
  • "Through photographs and thoughtful text, this volume looks at the Depression and some of the families it affected."
  • "''This volume is designed in two intentions: as the beginning of a larger piece of work; and to stand of itself, independent of any such further work as may be done. The title of the work as a whole, this volume included, is 'Three tenant families.'''-Pref."
  • "" ... The classic work based on a 1936 journalistic assignment ... The book is an account of the actual daily lives of three families of tenant farmers, (more popularly known as 'sharecroppers'), which are more or less representative of their class in the year 1936." ... from Public library Catalog."@en
  • "An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty."@en

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  • "Let us now praise Famous Men. (Three tenant families. Second printing.) [With plates.]"@en
  • "Let us now praise Famous Men. (Three tenant families. Second printing.) [With plates.]"
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  • "Let us now praise famous men : Three tenant families : (9. printing)"

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