The next meeting of Great Books KC will be September 30, 2022. We will discuss Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Walker Evans.
Meeting Date & Time:Date: September 30, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Zoom On-Line Meeting:
— an email with link to join will be sent prior to meeting.
— the link is sent to a limited mailing list of frequent attenders.
— request mailing list addition, sent to GreatBooksKC@gmail.com.
Description of Book:
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents the lives of impoverished tenant farmers during the Great Depression. Although it is in keeping with Evans's work with the Farm Security Administration, the project was initiated not by the FSA, but by Fortune magazine. The title derives from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach(44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us".
