# Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Revisited

Retraces the 1936 recording of journalist James Agee's and photographer Walker Evans' classic book on the subject of tenant farmers (Hale County, Alabama), "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," interviewing surviving members of the focal families. Epilogue, "Want in the Midst of Plenty," includes comments by Pete Daniel, Historian/Curator, Smithsonian Institution ; Leon Litwack, Historian, U. Cal./Berkeley; and Tillie Olsen, author. From YouTube Epilogue, "Want in the Midst of Plenty," includes comments by Pete Daniel, Historian/Curator, Smithsonian Institution ; Leon Litwack, Historian, U. Cal./Berkeley; and Tillie Olsen, author The American experience with David McCullough is presented by WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York and KCET/Los Angeles

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1988
- By: James Agee, Walker Evans, Alan Yentob, Carol Bell, Pete Daniel, Leon F Litwack, Tillie Olsen, David G McCullough
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LetUsNowPraiseFamousMenRevisited)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/LetUsNowPraiseFamousMenRevisited?play=1)