Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in...

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 in 1941 LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives was called intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and is "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times). Today it stands as a poetic tract of its time, recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue of Evans's classic images, reproduced from archival negatives, this sixtieth anniversary edition reintroduces the legendary author and photographer to a new generation. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-22-2007; A timeless classic...; James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful, tortured writing that speaks to both the deplorable conditions of the Depression-era souther sharecropper and the humanity of trying to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2006; If nothing else, certainly brilliant and thought-provoking; Let us Now Praise Famous Men, in all its poetry and prose, reminds me of an epic, like the Hindu Mahabharata or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The lyrical narrative reveals just as much, if not more about Agee, than his subjects. His writing...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-27-2006; Topic great, writers not so great.; The eloquence of composition surely necessitated infinite use of superlatives and verbs, resulting in a requisite painstaking remostrance to the reader, thus fettering the effusion and disembogulation of the document. In other words,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-23-2005; I thought I hated it at points, but I've never been able to get it out of my head.; This book is an amazing work of art. At times it's baffling, and at times almost impertinent--like when the author decides to describe every object in an entire home, and yet in all these things and in all the conflicting emotions it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-22-2007; A timeless classic...; James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful, tortured writing that speaks to both the deplorable conditions of the Depression-era souther sharecropper and the humanity of trying to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2006; If nothing else, certainly brilliant and thought-provoking; Let us Now Praise Famous Men, in all its poetry and prose, reminds me of an epic, like the Hindu Mahabharata or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The lyrical narrative reveals just as much, if not more about Agee, than his subjects. His writing...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-08-2002; Read it? YES --- Praise it? NO; Yes, Agee has an exceptional ability to use language. Yes, this novel is a "must read" for anyone interested in Depression-Era literature. No, it is not a good book, precisely for the same reason it is frequently recommended, namely,...; read full review | report as inappropriate