{"product_id":"9781572339941","title":"Complete Journalism: Articles, Book Reviews, and Manuscripts","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn addition to producing such distinguished literary works as \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Death in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, James Agee spent almost two decades of his professional career in journalism, primarily as an anonymous staff writer for the Henry Luce magazines \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e. At \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e, especially, Agee excelled in pointed, bemused reporting on American life that embraced a wide range of topics, from cockfighting to the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg to the ambitious programs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. What is arguably his most celebrated\u003ci\u003e Fortune \u003c\/i\u003epiece, “The Great American Roadside,” remains a remarkably prescient account of the ways in which the automobile was transforming America’s economic landscape and cultural sensibility.\u003cbr\u003e            This book, the second volume in The Works of James Agee series, recovers for modern readers the remarkable breadth and depth of Agee’s reportage, beginning with his apprenticeship writings for student publications at Exeter and Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s and concluding with his last book review (of a Dylan Thomas screenplay), written in 1953 for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Also included are two posthumously published pieces—the Whitmanesque “Brooklyn Is” and a meditation on news photography and race relations, “‘America! Look at Your Shame!’”—as well as unpublished articles, book reviews, and rough drafts and notes that yield unique insight into theauthor’s complex writing process. (Excluded from this volume but scheduled for a later one is Agee’s much-heralded film criticism.)\u003cbr\u003e            To say that Agee was ambivalent about journalism is an understatement: in \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, he famously denounced it as “a broad and successful form of lying.” Yet, in his unsigned labors on behalf of the Luce empire and in various other assignments, Agee seized opportunities to hone his craft and exercise his acute powers of observation—work that would serve him well as he undertook the kind of passionate and deeply personal writing that would secure his reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055672279280,"sku":"9781572339941","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781572339941_p0.jpg?v=1769900516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781572339941","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}