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This info describes the OC Library copy which I'm reading:
Cover: mud gray green with the title left margin reconciled like so:
Let
Us
Now
Praise
Famous Men
with black lettering except the word Praise which is white -- authors name lower right above Photograpsher Walker Evans name
Hardcover; 471 pp
Copyrights 1939, 1940 James Agee; 1941 James Agee and Walker Evans; 1969 Walker Evans. Third Printing Riverside Press Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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Cover: mud gray green with the title left margin reconciled like so:
Let
Us
Now
Praise
Famous Men
with black lettering except the word Praise which is white -- authors name lower right above Photograpsher Walker Evans name
Hardcover; 471 pp
Copyrights 1939, 1940 James Agee; 1941 James Agee and Walker Evans; 1969 Walker Evans. Third Printing Riverside Press Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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I can't believe I got through an undergrad degree in American history and 2 years as a master's student in American history without ever reading even excerpts of this book.
I very much liked reading the parts about how the tenants and their families live--and how the families are so different in personality, hopes for the future in their kids (school, public appearance). I was a history major for a reason, and this interests me.
I also, though, enjoyed Agee's rambling thoughts on how he felt himse ...more
I very much liked reading the parts about how the tenants and their families live--and how the families are so different in personality, hopes for the future in their kids (school, public appearance). I was a history major for a reason, and this interests me.
I also, though, enjoyed Agee's rambling thoughts on how he felt himse ...more
I have very mixed feelings about this book. Parts of it are transcendently beautiful, and parts of it are impenetrable and self-indulgent. I could have done with more of the first and less of the second. But overall, this is an important book, telling of lives that most of us would never have known of, since tenant farmers had/have no time or means to leave behind stories of their lives.
Although Agee's writing makes you want to throw up your hands at times, I still give this book 5 stars. I didn't like everything about it, but it is unlike anything else I had seen before (or have seen since). And Walker Evans's photographs are spellbinding.
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