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Three Tenant Families: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Agee, James - 1969

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Three Tenant Families: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

by Agee, James

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NY: Ballantine, 1969. Book. Illus. by Evans, Walker, Photog.. Good +. Mass Market Paperback. Reprint.. 428 pp. Moderate toning of text, light edgewear, spine crease. Text clean, textblock still tight. No markings. About 60 full-page b&w photos by Evans form an unpaginated introduction to the text. A pioneering report on poverty among sharecroppers during the Great Depression in the Deep South. Fortune magazine originally commissioned the project but then rejected it, leaving it to Houghton Mifflin to publish the material in 1941. The book was mostly ignored until the 1960s, as LBJ's War on Poverty gained momentum. Size: 12mo -- 7 in.
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  • Illustrator Evans, Walker, Photog.
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  • Publisher Ballantine
  • Place of Publication NY
  • Date Published 1969
  • Keywords HISTORY. SOCIAL GREAT DEPRESSION. SOUTH. AGRICULTURE. POVERTY.

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by James Agee, Walker Evans (Authors)

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by Agee, James, and Evans, Walker (Photographer); Hersey, John (Introduction by)

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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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