Covers the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord. This book remains necessary to challenge standard academic interpretations of the Highland past. It includes a preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.[...]
James Agee brought to bear all his moral energy, slashing wit, and boundless curiosity in the criticism and journalism that established him as one of the commanding literary voices of America at mid-century. In 1944 W. H. Auden called Agee's film reviews for The Nation "the most remarkable regular e[...]