Martin Mailman, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1975)

An assignment from Fortune Magazine led to the writing of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

While Fortune did not publish his article, Agee turned the material into a book entitled, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941).

This is from a new edition of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (Houghton Mifflin).

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Op.

Evans' Images for "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"

Turned down by the magazine, the piece evolved slowly into "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."

How different are the hardships of the Glass family from those recorded in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"?

Many of these images made their way into "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," the 1941 book that eventually emerged from the Fortune assignment.

Instead, pictures and text ended up in the 1941 book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."