Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Magill Book Reviews)

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In 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans lived for a month with three impoverished farmer families--the Woods, the Gudgers, and the Ricketts. To protect their privacy, the families’ real names were not used. These were people who lived as domestic beasts. Their houses were little better than cattle stalls. The men were harnessed for life in the straps of overalls. Under the strain of constant work the women grew old rapidly. Annie May Gudger looked 47 at 27. A child’s tenderness disappeared as soon as he or she was big enough to drag a cotton sack down a row.

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