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American Experience

Season 1 · Episode 9

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

0.055mNovember 29, 1988

An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, an American classic.

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Episode 1The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Episode 2Radio Bikini
Episode 3Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Episode 4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
Episode 5The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Episode 6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Episode 7Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Episode 8Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Episode 9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Episode 10That Rhythm, Those Blues
Episode 11The Radio Priest
Episode 12Hearts and Hands
Episode 13Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Episode 14Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Episode 15The World That Moses Built
Episode 16Sins of Our Mothers