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Starred Review on June 15, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
Before journalist Agee (1909–55) and photographer Evans (1903–75) published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a 400-page blend of prose and photography documenting the lives of three tenant farming families living in Hale County, AL, at the height of the Great Depression, they completed a heavily researched precursor titled Cotton Tenants. Commissioned in 1936 by Fortune magazine, the unpublished typescrip...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
