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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1941
- Pages
- Pages 470
A magazine writer moves in with three dirt-poor tenant farming families in the Depression-era South to document their daily lives, and turns the assignment into a long, anguished reckoning with his own right to look at their poverty at all.
the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
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