Cotton Tenants
by James Agee | 
The stones of Venice
by John Ruskin | 
A Death in the Family
by James Agee | 
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
by Jacques Bosser | 
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art
by James Hall | 
Just My Type
by Simon Garfield | 
Talking Pictures
by Ransom Riggs | 
Apollo's Angels
by Jennifer Homans | 
A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe | 
The War That Killed Achilles
by Caroline Alexander | 
From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe | 
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
by Donald Kagan |
Stories in Stone
by Douglas Keister | 
The Book of Legendary Lands
by Umberto Eco | 
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite
by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins | 
The Victorians
by Jeremy Paxman | 
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
by Ignatius Donnelly | 
The Montefeltro Conspiracy
by Marcello Simonetta |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon | 
The Secret Museum
by Molly Oldfield |
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was first published to enormous critical acclaim.