Author: Agee, James (and) Walker Evans
Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover. Black fabric casebound book with the title in silver lettering down the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in black and in green on a mostly white spine. Pages: (61), (5), vi-xi, (10), 6-416. Contains sixty-one pages of black-and-white plates. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression. It was the time of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs designed to help the poorest segments of the society. Agee and Evans spent eight weeks that summer researching their assignment, mainly among three white sharecropping families mired in desperate poverty. They returned with Evans's portfolio of stark images -- of families with gaunt faces, adults and children huddled in bare shacks before dusty yards in the Depression-era nowhere of the deep south -- and Agee's detailed notes. The manuscript was accepted for publication by Houghton Mifflin in 1939 and appeared two years later to enormous critical acclaim. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on top and bottom text blocks. Due date card on back pasted end page.

Keywords: History ; Sharecropping ; ; History - American


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