A review by reading_to_write
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee

5.0

A classic, an important read in the canon of nonfiction. Agee is a master poet who takes the reader thoroughly into his experience with southern tenant farmers, dissecting his own role which he acknowledges as self-serving as much as he wishes to expose and enlighten the tenant Farmer existence. His digression into fake news and the role of media is even more poignant today, and while his examination of his role sometimes strays into beating that subject to a pulp, it’s an important “discussion” to have- one that is again made more poignant when read today when many are having the same conversation (who gets to tell other people’s stories and why?). Not an easy read, but a very important one.