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Let us now praise famous men...,
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Let us now praise famous men..., Tripoli, Libya |
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 title is from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach (44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us”. The book grew out of an assignment
the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune magazine article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the “Dust Bowl”. 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 (Wikipedia).
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