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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

by Dale Maharidge, Michael S. Williamson · 1989

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This is sort of a sequel to *emphasized text*Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It follows the people of the earlier book in later years and their descendants.

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Subject
historybiographysociology
Themes
artamerican historyjournalistshistory
Setting
20th centuryalabamaamerican south
Audience
adult

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