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Three Tenant Families: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Agee, James - 1969
by Agee, James
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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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- Publisher Ballantine
- Place of Publication NY
- Date Published 1969
- Keywords HISTORY. SOCIAL GREAT DEPRESSION. SOUTH. AGRICULTURE. POVERTY.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by James Agee
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South
by Agee, James
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UsedAcceptable. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents and worn corners. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting,but the text is not obscured or unreadable. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by Agee, James; Evans, Walker
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Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by James Agee
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1989. Paperback. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families (Ballantine Walden Edition)
by James Agee, Walker Evans (Authors)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families (Ballantine Walden Edition)
by Walker Evans (Authors) James Agee
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UsedGood. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing The cover has visible markings and wear. This is a paperback copy There are some creases on the spine Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families (Ballantine Walden Edition)
by James Agee, Walker Evans (Authors)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South
by Evans, Walker; Agee, James
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- 9780618127498
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Mariner Books, 8/14/2001. Paperback. Good. 6x1x8. Paperback book in good condition.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
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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