Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
By H. HARRIS HEALY, III
President, Logos Bookstore,
1575 York Avenue (between 83rd and 84th Sts.)
New York, NY 10028
(212) 517-7292, Fax (212) 517-7197
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As we start a new year in an uncertain economy and world, it is an appropriate time to contemplate another past time of uncertainty such as the Depression. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans is a very moving meditation on poverty through the haunting black and white photographs of Walker Evans of Alabama sharecropper families, children and lodgings in 1936; and the emotional, poignant stream of consciousness narrative about these people, detailed descriptions of their clothing and lodging and related musings of James Agee. These sharecroppers appear to be trapped in poverty with decrepit housing, minimal income, limited education and considerable expenses to pay their landlords.

As bleak as things were for those people in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men then, there is much hope for many people of similar limited means, today, as Millard Fuller, President and CEO of Habitat For Humanity International recounts in More Than Houses, a collection of personal testimonies of gratitude from the new homeowners who built their own home along with Habitat volunteers, as well as reports about several Habitat programs around the world. In this book, one will read of true stories of children who were poor students in school, who became good students after moving into their new Habitat home.

One of many stories of joy is that of Rosie Simmons of Chicago, who was featured in the November 1997 issue of Ebony magazine. She lived in a miserable apartment in the uptown section. She received a Habitat house, and her life improved. She got a bank job in downtown Chicago and was promoted four times in four years and holds a very responsible job there. There are many more stories of hope in this book. Happy New Year!

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Upcoming Events at Logos
Wednesday, February 6, 2002, 7 P.M.

KYTV Reading Group will discuss

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot

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