Hardcover, 262 pages
English language
Published 1989 by Pantheon Books.
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
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In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael S. Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans’s project, 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’s fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects.
Subjects
- Agee, James, 1909-1955
- Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Travel -- Alabama
- Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
- Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
- Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
- Alabama -- Rural conditions
- Alabama -- Description and travel