Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by Agee, James, and Evans, Walker (Photographer); Hersey, John (Introduction by)
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0395488974
- ISBN 13
- 9780395488973
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. liv, 471 pages, [61] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. Depression-era classic on sharecroppers, with stunning photographs by Walker Evans. Born in Tennessee, James Agee (1909-1955) spent the summer of 1936 with photographer Walker Evans among the sharecroppers of Alabama, which resulted in the famous collaborative book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote poetry, screenwriting, and film criticism.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
- Author
- Agee, James, and Evans, Walker (Photographer); Hersey, John (Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395488974
- ISBN 13
- 9780395488973
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Photography / Individual Photographer; Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries;
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