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Overview
A watershed literary event on its first publication sixty years ago, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men stands as a poetic tract for its time, an invaluable document of the human and religious meaning of the lives of sharecroppers in the impoverished South. This new paperback edition, following on the heels of a national exhibition of Evans s photographs, touring through 2001, will continue to draw readers to the most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation (Lionel Trilling).
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780618127498
- ISBN-10: 0618127496
- Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- Publish Date: August 2001
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.45 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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