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re: Most Interesting Historical Non-fiction?
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:11 pm to audodger
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:11 pm to audodger
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee w/ photos by Walter Evans
It's a microlook at America during that time, basically three slices of life rather than panning back and looking at systematic effects. The prose is incredible. Actually it reads more like poetry.
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The book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecropper families in the U.S. South. It was the time of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs designed to help the poorest segments of the society. Agee and Evans spent eight weeks that summer researching their assignment, mainly among three white sharecropping families mired in desperate poverty. They returned with Evans' portfolio of stark images—of families with gaunt faces, adults and children huddled in bare shacks before dusty yards in the Depression-era nowhere of the deep south—and Agee's detailed notes.
It's a microlook at America during that time, basically three slices of life rather than panning back and looking at systematic effects. The prose is incredible. Actually it reads more like poetry.
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