Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Volume 3: An Annotated Edition of the James Agee-Walker Evans Classic, with Supplementary Manuscripts by

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Volume 3: An Annotated Edition of the James Agee-Walker Evans Classic, with Supplementary Manuscripts

1084 pages • first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction classics history emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and after a tortur...

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challenging 70%
informative 40%
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emotional 20%
sad 20%
adventurous 10%
inspiring 10%

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medium 9%

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