And Their Children After Them: The
Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men by Dale Maharidge
A "Must Have" For Anyone Who Liked "Let Us Now Praise...."
A stunning sequel to the James AgeeWalker Evans classic, Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men. It is at times astonishing, at all times deeply moving.-
Studs Terkel
A book that reaches into this countrys heart of darkness. . . . A tragically
human story more telling than a thousand polls. The photographs by Mr.
Williamson are eloquent.-Herbert Mitgang, New York Times
Mr. Williamsons photos are spellbinding and should become instant
classics.-John Elvin, Washington Times
In this paperback reissue, an author/photographer team returns to the land
and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evanss inimitable

masterwork Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of
conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. In 1936,
during a brief window of national attention to the topic, Fortune magazine
commissioned from Agee and Evans a story on poverty among tenant
farmers in Alabama. Agee was famously ambivalent in his role, calling
himself a spy and ultimately delivering a book-length manuscript
unpublishable in magazine form. With this continuation of Agee and
Evanss work, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising
historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also
effectively lay to rest Agees fear that his work, from lack of reverence or
resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects.
Williamsons 90-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans classic
originals.
Dale Maharidge (Homeland, Journey to Nowhere) has been a visiting
professor of journalism at Columbia University and Stanford, and a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard University in 1998.
Michael Williamson is a photographer for the Washington Post who won a
second Pulitzer for his coverage of the war in Kosovo.
Personal Review: And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Dale Maharidge
First introduced to "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and
Walker Evans through a PBS Documentary, which inspired a dash to the
library to read the book iteself, it wasn't until years later I went back to the
library to see if anyone had ever followed up on the story. Confronted with
the then new computerized "card catalog" system, I wondered how I might
search for any related writings when it dawned on me what a perfect title
would naturally evolve from the verse the first book title was taken: ..And
Their Children After Them. Imagine my amazement when I tried that title,
and there it was! Maharidge and Williamson have followed in Agee and
Evans footsteps to give readers "the rest of the story" of the tenant
farmers' families and grandchildren, as well as the stories of Agee and
Evans themselves. I congratulation them on an excellent book, and offer
thanks to the families and their descendants for sharing their lifestories.
Their lives did not take the path predicted for them by Agee: life refuses to
be harnessed by prediction. Some went farther than anyone could have
anticipated, while others came to a place, if possible, even worse than
expected. As a second generation American, descended from Polish and
Prussian immigrants who lived comparable lives, but who were blessed to
own their own land, I identified closely with these stories, from the first
page of "Let Us Praise" to the last page of "And Their Children".
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