And their children after them : the legacy of Let us now praise famous men, James Agee, Walker Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the South / Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson ; with a foreword by Carl Mydans.

Main entry:

Maharidge, Dale.

Title & Author:

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1989]
©1989

Description:

xxiv, 262 pages, 80 pages of plates : illustrations, map, plan ; 25 cm

Notes:
Map and plan on lining papers.
Foreword/Carl Mydans-Preface-King Cotton-1936-1940- Gudger-Ricketts-Woods-Bridges-Gaines-1940-1960-Gudger-Ricketts-Woods-Bridges-Gaines-1960-1986-Gudger-Ricketts-Woods-Bridges-Gaines-Coda-Acknowledgements-Main Characters and Places -- Photo Captions.
Also issued online.
Pulizer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1990.

Summary:

Examines the lives, fifty years later, of the Alabama families profiled in Agee and Walker's book about tenant farmers in the Depression, describing the impact of the loss of cotton as a livelihood on later generations.

ISBN:

0394577663
9780394577661
0679728783 (pbk.)
9780679728788 (pbk.)

Subject:

Agee, James, 1909-1955. Let us now praise famous men.
Agee, James, 1909-1955 Travel Alabama.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
Agee, James, 1909-1955 PEA 1928 Travel Alabama.
Agee, James, 1909-1955
Cotton farmers Alabama History 20th century.
Farm tenancy Alabama History 20th century.
Producteurs de coton Alabama Histoire 20e siècle.
Baux ruraux Alabama Histoire 20e siècle.
Cotton farmers
Farm tenancy
Rural conditions
Travel
Katoenindustrie.
Boeren.
Alabama Rural conditions.
Alabama Description and travel.
Alabama Conditions rurales.
Alabama Descriptions et voyages.
Alabama
Agee, James Let us now praise famous men
Agee, James Travel Alabama
Cotton farmers History 20th century Alabama
Evans, Walker
Farm tenancy History 20th century Alabama

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Williamson, Michael, 1957-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 46623
Call No.: ID:89-B5920
Status: Available

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