Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee

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 title is from a passage in Ecclesiasticus that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us."

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The 77th greatest nonfiction book of all time

This book is on the following lists:

1. - 1st on The Best Southern Nonfiction of All Time (Oxford American)
2. - 75th on In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels (ThisRecording.com)
3. - 100 Most Influential Books of the Century (Boston Public Library)
4. - 100 Major Works of Modern Creative Nonfiction (About.com)
5. - The 80 Books Every Man Should Read (Esquire)
6. - Best Books Ever (bookdepository.com)
7. - Recommended Books (Academy of Achievement)
8. - The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Three Tenant Families	Paperback	5997129		$36.97
	Let us now praise famous men [by] James Agee [and] Walker Evans	Hardcover	344804		$40.00
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Kindle Edition	69674	$9.99		2001
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South	Paperback	960554	$10.35	$5.63	2001
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Mass Market Paperback	1374494		$13.43
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South	Hardcover	699509	$48.93	$14.27	2000
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families	Paperback	3734186	$22.99	$3.99	1988
	LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. 1969. HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET.	Hardcover	2875045		$953.33
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Paperback	1195123	$2.94	$0.01	1989
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Paperback	1753003	$14.25	$10.00	2008
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Mass Market Paperback	2219713	$83.98	$2.93	1978
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families	Audio CD	7654130	$32.95		2016
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families	Hardcover	2489482		$10.00
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by Agee, James, Evans, Walker (1988) Paperback	Paperback	2209408	$51.07	$5.88	1988
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Paperback	3002829		$1.00
	LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN	Paperback	3109475	$38.42	$0.80
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Paperback	5065574		$3.44
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Mass Market Paperback	1006245	$36.92	$0.01	1974
	James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / shorter fiction (LOA #159) (Library of America James Agee Edition)	Hardcover	894281	$29.95	$8.77	2005
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Publisher: Mariner Books; 1st Mariner Books Ed edition	Paperback	5292092	$11.71	$8.80
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Hardcover	1586569	$152.24	$9.73
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Paperback	5658485		$4.50
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Paperback	83507	$9.47	$3.57	2001