By James Agee
ISBN-10: 1612192122
ISBN-13: 9781612192123
James Agee (Author) , John Summers (Editor) , Walker Evans (Photographer) ,
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by way of a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans released Let Us Now compliment well-known Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony approximately 3 tenant farming households in Hale County, Alabama on the peak of the good melancholy. The publication shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling referred to as it the “most reasonable and most vital ethical attempt of our American generation.”
The origins of Agee and Evan's recognized collaboration date again to an project for Fortune journal, which despatched them to Alabama in the summertime of 1936 to record a narrative that was once by no means released. a few have assumed that Fortune's editors shelved the tale due to the unconventional sort that marked Let Us Now compliment recognized Men, and for years the unique record used to be lost.
But fifty years after Agee’s dying, a trove of his manuscripts grew to become out to incorporate a typescript categorized “Cotton Tenants.” as soon as tested, the pages made it transparent that Agee had in truth written a masterly, 30,000-word record for Fortune.
Published the following for the 1st time, and followed via thirty of Walker Evans’s ancient pictures, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent document of 3 households suffering via determined instances. certainly, Agee’s dispatch continues to be correct as some of the most sincere explorations of poverty in the US ever tried and as a foundational record of long-form reporting. because the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an creation, it truly is “a poet’s short for the prosecution of monetary and social injustice.”
Co-Published with The Baffler magazine