Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936, examining their everyday existence in poverty
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The clasic that became the prototype of the modern nonfiction novel. A watershed literary event at its first publication in 1941, LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN is an "unsparing record of the harsh existence of three Alabama families, and a poetic meditation on the terrible beauty of their lives," recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the century.
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