Book · 1941 · Nonfiction

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Mariner Books · 432 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Sent to Alabama in 1936 to report on cotton tenancy, Agee returned with an act of devotion: three sharecropping families recorded down to the nails in their shoes, alongside Walker Evans's photographs.

Genre

Reporting

Subject

Poverty Great Depression

Setting

American South

Time

1941Depicts Great DepressionDepicts 1930s

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