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The Great Depression-Era Book That Had a Major Impact on Josh Brolin

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The actor and writer Josh Brolin shares a book that had a major impact on him: “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” by James Agee and Walker Evans, in which they document the Deep South during the Great Depression.

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