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And their children after them : the legacy of Let us now praise famous men : James Agee, Walker Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the South / Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson ; foreword by Carl Mydans.
LIBRA - Special F326.A173 M34 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maharidge, Dale.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agee, James, 1909-1955. Let us now praise famous men.
- Agee, James.
- Agee, James, 1909-1955.
- Travel.
- Farm tenancy.
- History.
- Cotton farmers.
- Rural conditions.
- Alabama--Description and travel.
- Alabama.
- Alabama--Rural conditions.
- Cotton farmers--Alabama--History--20th century.
- Farm tenancy--Alabama--History--20th century.
- Agee, James, 1909-1955--Travel--Alabama.
- Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
- Evans, Walker.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 262 pages, 80 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Examines the lives, fifty years later, of the Alabama families profiled in Agee and Walker's book about tenant farmers in the Depression, describing the impact of the loss of cotton as a livelihood on later generations.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1989.
- ISBN:
- 1583226575
- 9781583226575
- OCLC:
- 56799474
- Online:
- Publisher description
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