A review by smcbaugh
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans, James Agee

1.0

Did anyone who gave this book 5 stars actually read all of it? I skipped pages, and still feel as though I’ve been through an ordeal having read most of it. It took me over a year because I had to keep putting it down. I never write reviews but I am just flabbergasted.

I came away unnerved with how in his tortured attempts to mark himself as unlike his peers, he has fetishized these families and their circumstances.

Is the writing beautiful? In turns, astonishingly so. But truth be told, only a white man could get away with this book, and it reeks of it.