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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

by James Agee, Walker Evans

🕰️ First published in 1941

🏠 Published by Violette Editions, 24 edition(s)

📕 480 pages

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“The ability to try to understand existence, the ability to try to recognize the wonder and responsibility of one's own existence, the ability to know even fractionally the almost annihilating beauty, ambiguity, darkness, and horror which swarm every instant of every consciousness, the ability to try to accept, or the ability to try to defend one's self, or the ability to dare to try to assist others; all such as these, of which most human beings are cheated of their potentials, are, in most of those who even begin to discern or wish for them, the gifts or thefts of economic privilege, and are available to members of these leanest classes only by the rare and irrelevant miracle of born and surviving 'talent'. Or to say it in another way: I believe that every human being is potentially capable, within his 'limits', of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can accuse itself; and that the discovery and use of 'consciousness', which has always been and is our deadliest enemy and deceiver, is also the source and guide of all hope and cure, and the only one.”
—James Agee

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (2002)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (2002)

Violette Editions

Violette Editions

Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1900828154

ISBN 13: 9781900828154

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1973)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1973)

Houghton Mifflin Company

Houghton Mifflin Company

ISBN 10: 0395073308

ISBN 13: 9780395073308

Let us now praise famous men (1969)

Let us now praise famous men (1969)

Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin

ISBN 10: 0395073308

Let us now praise famous men (1969)

Let us now praise famous men (1969)

Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin

ISBN 10: 039529696X

Let us now praise famous men (1988)

Let us now praise famous men (1988)

Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin

ISBN 10: 0395489016

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (2000)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (2000)

Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Co.

Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Co.

ISBN 10: 0395957710

ISBN 13: 9780395957714

Let us now praise famous men (2005)

Let us now praise famous men (2005)

Library of America

Library of America

ISBN 10: 1931082812

Let us now praise famous men (1988)

Let us now praise famous men (1988)

Pan Books

Pan Books

ISBN 10: 033030285X

Let us now praise famous men (1969)

Let us now praise famous men (1969)

Panther

Panther

ISBN 10: 0586028900

Let us now praise famous men (2001)

Let us now praise famous men (2001)

Violette Editions

Violette Editions

ISBN 10: 1900828154

Let us now praise famous men (2005)

Let us now praise famous men (2005)

Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam

Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam

ISBN 10: 1931082812

Let us now praise famous men (1980)

Let us now praise famous men (1980)

Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin

ISBN 10: 039529696X

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