Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

The shattering Depression documentary, one of the great books of our time...Saturday Review. In 1936 James Agee and photographer Walker Evans ...lived with 3 families in Alabama for 6 weeks, sharing their food and sleeping in their cabins. Without sentimentality or cheap pity, but with scrupulous honesty and immense respect for human dignity, they set out to confront the reader with the overwhelming actuality of these people's lives.