<DIV><p>&ldquo;A stunning sequel to the James Agee&ndash;Walker Evans&rsquo; classic, <i>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</i>. It is at times astonishing, at all times deeply moving.&rdquo;&mdash;Studs Terkel</p><p>&ldquo;A book that reaches into this country&rsquo;s heart of darkness. . . . A tragically human story more telling than a thousand polls. The photographs by Mr. Williamson are eloquent.&rdquo;&mdash;Herbert Mitgang, <i>New York Times</i></p><p>&ldquo;Mr. Williamson&rsquo;s photos are spellbinding and should become instant classics.&rdquo;&mdash;John Elvin, <i>Washington Times</i></p><p>In this paperback reissue, an author/photographer team returns to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans&rsquo;s inimitable masterwork <i>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</i>, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. In 1936, during a brief window of national attention to the topic, <i>Fortune</i> magazine commissioned from Agee and Evans a story on poverty among tenant farmers in Alabama. Agee was famously ambivalent in his role, calling himself a spy and ultimately delivering a book-length manuscript unpublishable in magazine form. With this continuation of Agee and Evans&rsquo;s work, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee&rsquo;s fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects.</p><p>Williamson&rsquo;s 90-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans&rsquo; classic originals.</p><p><b>Dale Maharidge</b> (<i>Homeland, Journey to Nowhere</i>) has been a visiting professor of journalism at Columbia University and Stanford, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1998.</p><p><b>Michael Williamson</b> is a photographer for the <i>Washington Post</i> who won a second Pulitzer for his coverage of the war in Kosovo.</p></DIV>