A review by drlove2018
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by Walker Evans, James Agee

3.0

This was rough going at first, very dense and seemingly repetitive in places, but I appreciated the style and some of his acknowledgements of the extremely fraught task which he had been set. There were passages I loved, and lots of things I found deeply disturbing, both about the realities of these people's lives and the way in which Agee reacted to and described them (he uses the word "sexy" in reference to an 8-year-old girl. EWW.) Ultimately, I found this definitely worth reading, especially as a Southerner, to understand another nuance of class and race relations in the 1930s South.