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Author

Agee, James, 1909-1955.

Title Cotton tenants : three families / James Agee ; [photographs by] Walker Evans ; edited by John Summers ; preface by Adam Haslett.

Imprint

Brooklyn : Melville House, c2013.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Parsons Non-Fiction	976.10 A265	---	Available

Description	224 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Summary	On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photos) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
Subject	Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Travel -- Alabama.
	Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- Travel -- Alabama.
	Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
	Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
	Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- Social conditions.
	Alabama -- Rural conditions.
Local Subject	npr Featured books July 2013.
Added Author	Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
ISBN	1612192122
	9781612192123