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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents the lives of impoverished tenant farmers during the Great Depression. Although it is in keeping with Evans's work with the Farm Security Administration, the project was initiated not by the FSA, but by Fortune magazine. The title derives from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach (44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us."

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in...

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Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen...

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"Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves (or how I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake)" is an infamous interview with Lou Reed conducted by Lester...

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Their name liveth for evermore

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evermore." The chapter begins with the line "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us." The full text of verse 14 was suggested by...

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Walker Evans

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the Great Depression were published as the groundbreaking book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Its detailed account of three farming families paints a deeply...

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Biblical apocrypha

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Clavier. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the title of James Agee's 1941 chronicle of Alabama sharecroppers, was taken from Ecclesiasticus 44:1: "Let us now praise...

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Dale Maharidge

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places and people depicted in Walker Evans's and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Also with Williamson, Maharidge wrote Journey to Nowhere: The...

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American Experience season 1

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16, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012. "American Experience | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited". PBS. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016...

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Young Men and Fire

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Timothy Foote compared the book to James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Maclean stopped working on Young Men and Fire in 1987 due to ill health and left...

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Book of Sirach

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the 1982 Academy Awards, is from Sirach 44:1: "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us." In "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", the first...

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Sharecropping

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doi:10.3098/ah.2009.83.3.323. Agee, James; Evans, Walker (1941). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Allen, D. W...

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Avon Books (1980), and Library of America (2005). Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction. Michael Sragow, ed...

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You Have Seen Their Faces

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first-person captions. This book inspired James Agee to write Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). The book's title is reminiscent of two short stories...

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Michael Sragow

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ISBN 978-1-931082-82-2. Sragow, Michael, ed. (2005). James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction. Library of America....

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Appalachia

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States until 1940, when James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book that documented families in Appalachia during the Great...

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Southern United States literature

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and Evil, is not a Southerner. In addition, some famous Southern writers moved to the Northern U.S. So while geography is a factor, the geographical...

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Colonial Monuments and a Malay Fort". museumvolunteersjmm. ""Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942)...

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Yoko Ono

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p. 40. Miles 1997, p. 552. Udovitch, Mim (October 8, 2000). "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 10...

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White trash

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Author James Agee wrote about them in his ground-breaking work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), as did Jonathan Daniels in A Southerner Discovers the...

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Farm Security Administration

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documentary prose (for example Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men), the FSA photography project is most responsible for creating...

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List of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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adventure" (Marathon) "I vow to thee my country" (Abinger) "Let us now praise famous men" (Famous Men) "Fierce raged the tempest" (White Gates) "Summum bonum",...

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William Mathias

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Joyful in the Lord for choir and organ, Op. 90, No. 2 (1983) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for choir and organ/ orchestra, Op. 91, No.2 Missa Aedis Christi...

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Ruby Dee

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Hughes (with Ossie Davis. Caedmon Records, no date, TC 1272) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with George Grizzard. Caedmon Records, 1970, TC 1324) Tough...

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Julie Moos

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unseen corporation. This series is based on James Agee's article "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men", published as a book with photographs by Walker Evans. The series...

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American literature

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dark ironies of Hollywood life. In non-fiction, James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men observes and depicts the lives of three struggling tenant-farming...

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The Tender Land

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Depression-era photographs of Walker Evans and reading James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. He wrote the work between 1952 and 1954 for the NBC Television...

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