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About the Book

In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment
for Fortune magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white
sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and after a torturous five-year
struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author finally published it in book form
as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, only to see it sink with barely a ripple. The posthumous
revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's reissue in 1960, its adoption as an unofficial
bible by civil rights workers, and its enshrinement as an American classic. It has
remained in print ever since.

In this, the third volume in The Works of James Agee series, editor Hugh Davis not
only offers a thoroughly annotated edition of the Agee-Evans masterpiece, featuring invaluable
explanatory notes as well as notes comparing the published work to extant copies of the
original manuscript, but also supplements that text with a wealth of additional material: an
insightful critical essay, variant versions of key sections, unused chapters, correspondence
between Agee and others involved in the book's publication (notably Houghton Mifflin editor
Robert Linscott), generous selections from the author's notebooks, and much more. This
volume opens with the original gallery of Evans's thirty-one photographs from the 1941
edition and also includes, as part of the supplementary material, the expanded gallery of
sixty-two photos that appeared in the 1960 edition. Here as well is the text of the rejected
Fortune article, "Cotton Tenants," fully annotated for the first time.

Informed by Agee's love of his subjects, his acute observational skills, and his poetic,
passionate, raging voice--not to mention the stark artistry of Evan's black and white photography
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book that to this day defies easy classification.
This volume recaptures the aesthetic impact of the original, corrects errors from earlier
editions, and, most important, illuminates the difficult process that spawned its creation.
About the Author: Hugh Davis is an associate professor of English at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia.
He is the author of "The Making of James Agee" and coeditor, with Michael A. Lofaro, of
"James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men "and Other New
Manuscripts," both published by the University of Tennessee Press.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781621900306
  • Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Univ Tennessee Press
  • Depth: 76
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 1084
  • Series Title: Collected Works of James Agee
  • Sub Title: Three Tenant Families
  • Weight: 1678 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1621900304
  • Publisher Date: 31 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 61 mm
  • Volume: 3
  • Width: 164 mm


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