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The work documents the lives of impoverished tenant farmers during the great depression. The legacy of let us now praise famous men: However, as the literary encyclopedia points out, agee ultimately conceived of the project as a work of several volumes to be entitled three tenant families, though only the first volume, let us now praise famous men, was ever written.

While it originally sold only 600 copies, the book found a new audience in the 1960s, during a renewed interest in the works of james.

There's that wonderful moment in let us now praise famous men where james agee asks you to put your ear against a speaker and listen to beethoven or schubert (though i never understood the schubert part) on the radio and crank the volume all the way up and. The title is from a passage in ecclesiasticus that begins, let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. Digitized images of each album page (made from color transparencies) and associated identifying information are available through the prints & photographs online catalog. Let us now praise famous men.