Audio only
Length15h 13m
About this audiobook
A landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (New York Times)
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published in 1941.
This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and the rhythm of their lives is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest. Recognized today by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, it stands as a poetic tract of its time.
With a bonus PDF of Walker Evans’s classic images, reproduced exactly as they are in the print edition, this book offers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (7.7K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreHistory, Psychology
Length15 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byLloyd James
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 5, 2016
LanguageEnglish
More from James Agee
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
All the Gallant MenDonald Stratton, Ken Gire5h 55m4.6 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
Medgar and MyrlieJoy-Ann Reid10h 52m4.5 (27.8K)$29 · $0.00
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Annotated)Thucydides24h 3m4.6 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Where the Birds Never SingJack Sacco10h 31m4.6 (3.8K)$29 · $0.00
Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS SoldierJamie Pennell5h 51m4.6 (452)$24 · $0.00
What to Make of a LifeJim Collins13h 31m4.4 (793)$33 · $0.00
Hour of the HeartIrvin D. Yalom, Benjamin Yalom8h 19m4.6 (2.3K)$26 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
Level UpRob Dial7h 42m4.6 (3.3K)$26 · $0.00
As a JewSarah Hurwitz8h 36m4.6 (1.2K)$26 · $0.00
Burn the HaystackJennie Young, PhD9h 30m4.6 (543)$29 · $0.00
Woman and the New Race (Annotated)Margaret Sanger6h 30m4.6 (1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Good InsideBecky Kennedy9h 55m4.5 (59.3K)$29 · $0.00
Du Bois: EssaysW.E.B. Du Bois6h 22m4.6 (1.5K)$1 · $0.00
The North American Indian (Illustrated Edition)Edward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge5h 59m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Valley of the BirdtailAndrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson10h 1m4.6 (2.4K)$29 · $0.00
Lies My Therapist Told MeGreg E. Gifford9h 3m4.6 (503)$29 · $0.00
Disturbed in Their NestsAlephonsion Deng, Judy A. Bernstein11h 22m4.6 (595)$23 · $0.00
No Name in the StreetJames Baldwin5h4.5 (8.5K)$20 · $0.00
Magic SeasonWade Rouse6h 41m4.6 (855)$24 · $0.00
Consent Laid BareChanel Contos7h 11m4.5 (1.7K)$24 · $0.00
The Big RevealSasha Velour6h 15m4.5 (2.1K)$24 · $0.00
Pastoral SongJames Rebanks8h 35m4.5 (12K)$26 · $0.00
Sitting PrettyRebekah Taussig7h 33m4.5 (18.9K)$26 · $0.00
Wholehearted FaithRachel Held Evans, Jeff Chu5h 45m4.5 (10.2K)$24 · $0.00
You may also like
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)Barbara Kingsolver2h 14m4.1 (350)$16 · $0.00
Let Us Now Praise Famous MenJames Agee13h 55m4.1 (7.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Wild WordsNicole Gulotta4h 52m4.2 (664)$20 · $0.00
Dear MotherBunmi Laditan1h 4m4.5 (1.3K)$12 · $0.00
ThriftSamuel Smiles11h 34m4.2 (265)$2 · $0.00
The Search for the GenuineJim Harrison12h 2m4.3 (387)$23
A Writer's Diary (Summarized Edition)Virginia Woolf3h 21m4.3 (9.3K)$2
Growth of the SoilKnut Hamsun15h 17m4.3 (17.9K)$2.30
Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South PoleHans-Olav Thyvold7h 34m3.7 (1.1K)$26 · $0.00
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Annotated)Laurence Sterne4h 12m3.9 (40.8K)$1.20 · $0.00
The Wisdom of FinanceMihir Desai6h 29m4.0 (3K)$24 · $0.00
A Mindful YearDr. Aria Campbell-Danesh, Seth J. Gillihan PhD12h 34m4.4 (720)$23
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf7h 16m4.0 (270.4K)$21 · $0.00
CensusJesse Ball4h 52m3.6 (5.1K)$20 · $0.00
It’s Not Yet DarkSimon Fitzmaurice3h 10m4.3 (3.2K)$15
The Last SupperRachel Cusk7h 56m3.6 (2.2K)$20 · $0.00
Round about a Pound a Week (Annotated)Mrs. Pember Reeves6h 17m4.1 (747)$1.99 · $0.00
PreludesAlice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell1h 57m$2 · $0.00
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 (Summarized Edition)Fanny Kemble3h 41m$2
Ralph Waldo EmersonOliver Wendell Holmes9h 42m4.1 (95)$1 · $0.00