In 1937 James Agee submitted an application for a Guggenheim Fellowship that listed 47 different plans for work. At the top was “Alabama Record,” which became Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, his collaboration with Walker Evans, commissioned and then turned down by Fortune and eventually published as a book in 1942 (and remaindered for many years thereafte…
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