James Agee, Let Us Now Praise. . . : Stranging the Familiar
Monday, September 3rd, 2007James Agee was writing during the 1930s, a terrible time for many Americans who depended on the earth for a living. Farmers were ruined, and families in the south turned to sharecropping in order to survive. It was a hard life—-harder than most of us could imagine. In fact, many northerners and wealthier Americans could not imagine it.
