Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee & Walker Evans

Title:  Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Author: James Agee & Walker Evans
Publisher:  Peter Owens Publishers
Edition:  2nd British Reprint, 1975
Binding:  Hardcover
ISBN: 072064982X

Condition:  Very good

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today—recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century—it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans’s classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.