Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
And Their Children After Them
by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson
Summary
A "follow-up" to James Agee's 1941 "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," revisiting the same Alabama sharecropping families fifty years later.
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Historical Context & Significance
The book won for exposing the cycle of poverty that persisted in the South, despite the economic boom of the mid-20th century.