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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Response
- Reviews of book: NYT called it "arrogant" and "self-indulgent"; Time called it "the most distinguished failure of the season" (xxxi)
- became an important book during the Civil Rights movement and the unrest of the 1960s
- Mrs. Burroughs (Gudger): "I took it [the book] home and I read it plumb through. And when I read it plumb through I give it back to her and i said, 'Well, everything in there's true.' What they wrote in there was true" (xxxix).
- Now compared to Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau
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