Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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In 1936, James Agee, a writer, and Walker Evans, a photographer on leave from the Farm Security Administration, were commissioned by the staff of a magazine to do an article on cotton tenantry that would be a photographic and verbal record of the daily lives of the average white sharecropper. As the two men carried out their assignment, they found it developing into a much larger project than that originally conceived. Ultimately, they were forced to return to their jobs much sooner than they wished and the work that they had done and assembled was refused...

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