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In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans's inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans's project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee's fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects. Williamson's ninety-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans's classic originals. Maharidge and Williamson's work in And Their Children After Them was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction when it was first published in 1990.
A poignant, real-life multigenerational saga of what happened to three families in the Depression South and the unrelenting hardship of picking cotton.
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Robert Martin
reviewed And Their Children after Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men on April 01, 2009 And Their Children after Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
I thought this book was fantastic. Where I found "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" to be slightly tedious and the language to be ridiculously flowery in places, this book was straightforward. It briefly told the story of its predecessor, then expounded. The writers exposed the effects that the poverty had on following generations. James Agee's personal issues and motivations were also mentioned, which made some of his own writing seem a little more clear. I found the person of Garvrin Arlo to be particularly poignant. While others in his and the neighboring families had risen above, I don't see from any angle how he could have. This is a book of profound sadness in reality with a few glimmers of hope.
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