Wonderful, surprising, enlightening piece by my friend Lincoln Caplan, on a connection I hadn't know about: Jimmy Carter and James Agee, via 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.' www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/jimm... - ThreadSky

About ThreadSky

jfallows.bsky.social • 62 days ago

Wonderful, surprising, enlightening piece by my friend Lincoln Caplan, on a connection I hadn't know about: Jimmy Carter and James Agee, via 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.'

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/jimmy-carter-james-agee-influence

Comments

paul-m-anderson.bsky.social•61 days ago

What a great intellectual Carter was. Agee was one of the best stylists.

tarhoosier.bsky.social•62 days ago

It is a GREAT book, an American story, and Walker Evans was celestial as a photographer. Prose as poetry.

bookdetective.bsky.social•62 days ago

Here’s a link to Ross Spears’ 1980 documentary “Agee” which Lincoln Caplan referenced:

https://archive.org/details/agee_20170420

bookdetective.bsky.social•62 days ago

Just saw that Oscar-nominated documentarian Ross Spears (1947-2024) died last February and his death went without much notice.

He also made a second documentary “To Render a Life” about LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN.

https://obits.johnsoncitypress.com/us/obituaries/johnsoncitypress/name/roswell-spears-obituary?id=54334989

bookdetective.bsky.social•62 days ago

FYI another esoteric connection: four books that were on the Houghton Mifflin backlist between 1985 and 1992.

jpratt.bsky.social•61 days ago

Thank you very much for the link.
Grew up in similar circumstances (cotton & corn farm) to Jimmy Carter & he was the reason I found “Praise” book. Thankful for President Carter for this & for his life of service. God rest his soul.

mkrebs.bsky.social•61 days ago

Thank you, James. Reading this made my day.

Posting Rules

Be respectful to others
No spam or self-promotion
Stay on topic
Follow Bluesky's terms of service

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply