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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Name
- Melville House Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781612192123
- Book Title
- Cotton Tenants : Three Families
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Literary Collections, History
- Topic
- Economic History, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Agriculture / General, Essays
- Item Weight
- 15.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 226 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
ISBN-10
1612192122
ISBN-13
9781612192123
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143992303
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cotton Tenants : Three Families
Number of Pages
226 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Agriculture / General, Essays
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Literary Collections, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men "The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." -Lionel Trilling "The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today." -W. H. Auden, "A masterpiece of the magazine reporter's art. It is lucid, evocative, empathetic, deeply reported, consistently surprising, plainly argued, and illuminated, page after page, with poetic leaps of transcendent clarity." -- Fortune "Agee squabbled with his editors over what he felt was the exploitation and trivialization of destitute American families.... What readers are about to discover now is what all the fighting was about." -- The New York Times " Cotton Tenants reads with the spare and measured beauty of a writer who knows that under the social circumstances he can only allow himself so much. It is a deeply moving work... Cotton Tenants is fresh and painful reading." -- The Awl "That's the first thing to be said about this essay: Fortune was crazy not to run it. It was a failure of nerve, and a lost chance at running one of the great magazine pieces from that era." -John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bookforum "An all-in, embracive rendering, panoramic as Brueghel while typecasting like Ben Shahn.... Agee may be our foundational maximalist, the progenitor of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace."-- The Los Angeles Review of Books "A paragon of lyrical realism, the book is a legend...Agee writes with clinical, angry precision." -- The Boston Globe "Agee's discerning eye, crushing bluntness, and forward-falling prose poetry urge along before dunking readers' senses, again and again, into the families' way of life. Disdainful of sentiment and melodrama, Agee shows no bias, revealing his subjects and skewering both oppressors and supposed reformers." --ALA Booklist Praise for James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men "A book of wonders--an untamable American classic in the same line as Leaves of Grass and Moby-Dick ." -- David Denby , The New Yorker " Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is . . . a classic work, an exercise in pure, declarative humanism. It will read true forever." -- David Simon , creator of The Wire "The most copiously talented writer of my generation." -- Dwight Macdonald "The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." -- Lionel Trilling "The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today." -- W. H. Auden, "A masterpiece of the magazine reporter's art. It is lucid, evocative, empathetic, deeply reported, consistently surprising, plainly argued, and illuminated, page after page, with poetic leaps of transcendent clarity." - Fortune "Agee squabbled with his editors over what he felt was the exploitation and trivialization of destitute American families…. What readers are about to discover now is what all the fighting was about." - The New York Times " Cotton Tenants reads with the spare and measured beauty of a writer who knows that under the social circumstances he can only allow himself so much. It is a deeply moving work… Cotton Tenants is fresh and painful reading." - The Awl "That's the first thing to be said about this essay: Fortune was crazy not to run it. It was a failure of nerve, and a lost chance at running one of the great magazine pieces from that era." John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bookforum "An all-in, embracive rendering, panoramic as Brueghel while typecasting like Ben Shahn…. Agee may be our foundational maximalist, the progenitor of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace."- The Los Angeles Review of Books "A paragon of lyrical realism, the book is a legend…Agee writes with clinical, angry precision." - The Boston Globe "Agee's discerning eye, crushing bluntness, and forward-falling prose poetry urge along before dunking readers' senses, again and again, into the families' way of life. Disdainful of sentiment and melodrama, Agee shows no bias, revealing his subjects and skewering both oppressors and supposed reformers." -ALA Booklist Praise for James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men "A book of wonders-an untamable American classic in the same line as Leaves of Grass and Moby-Dick ." - David Denby , The New Yorker " Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is . . . a classic work, an exercise in pure, declarative humanism. It will read true forever." - David Simon , creator of The Wire "The most copiously talented writer of my generation." - Dwight Macdonald "The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." - Lionel Trilling "The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today." - W. H. Auden, Praise for James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men "A book of wonders-an untamable American classic in the same line as Leaves of Grass and Moby-Dick ." - David Denby , The New Yorker " Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is . . . a classic work, an exercise in pure, declarative humanism. It will read true forever." - David Simon , creator of The Wire "The most copiously talented writer of my generation." - Dwight Macdonald "The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." - Lionel Trilling "The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today." - W. H. Auden, "A masterpiece of the magazine reporter's art. It is lucid, evocative, empathetic, deeply reported, consistently surprising, plainly argued, and illuminated, page after page, with poetic leaps of transcendent clarity." - Fortune "Agee squabbled with his editors over what he felt was the exploitation and trivialization of destitute American families…. What readers are about to discover now is what all the fighting was about." - Christine Haughney, The New York Times " Cotton Tenants reads with the spare and measured beauty of a writer who knows that under the social circumstances he can only allow himself so much. It is a deeply moving work… Cotton Tenants is fresh and painful reading." - The Awl "That's the first thing to be said about this essay: Fortune was crazy not to run it. It was a failure of nerve, and a lost chance at running one of the great magazine pieces from that era." - John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bookforum "An all-in, embracive rendering, panoramic as Brueghel while typecasting like Ben Shahn…. Agee may be our foundational maximalist, the progenitor of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace."- Thomas Larson, The Los Angeles Review of Books "A paragon of lyrical realism, the book is a legend…Agee writes with clinical, angry precision." - The Boston Globe "Agee's discerning eye, crushing bluntness, and forward-falling prose poetry urge along before dunking readers' senses, again and again, into the families' way of life. Disdainful of sentiment and melodrama, Agee shows no bias, revealing his subjects and skewering both oppressors and supposed reformers." -ALA Booklist Praise for James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men "A book of wonders-an untamable American classic in the same line as Leaves of Grass and Moby-Dick ." - David Denby , The New Yorker " Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is . . . a classic work, an exercise in pure, declarative humanism. It will read true forever." - David Simon , creator of The Wire "The most copiously talented writer of my generation." - Dwight Macdonald "The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." - Lionel Trilling "The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today." - W. H. Auden, "The most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." -Lionel Trilling "The most remarkable regular event in American journalism today." -W. H. Auden
Photographed by
Evans, Walker
Dewey Decimal
338.173510922
Synopsis
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the "most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation." The origins of Agee and Evan's famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune 's editors shelved the story because of the unconventional style that marked Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , and for years the original report was lost. But fifty years after Agee's death, a trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled "Cotton Tenants." Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune . Published here for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans's historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee's dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an introduction, it is "a poet's brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice." Co-Published with The Baffler magazine, In the summer of 1936, James Agee set out with photographer Walker Evans on an assignment for Fortune magazine. Their mission was to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. The journey fostered an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when the resulting report was turned into a book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941. Agee's original dispatch, accompanied by 25 of Walker Evans' historic photos, is an unsparing record of place and of three families who worked the land at a desperate time.
LC Classification Number
HD8039.C662
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