I see no redeeming social value to Agee's poorly written, disjointed, and condescending dribble. He befriends a few weak and troubled families and projects them upon a whole people and then manages to betray the families and their trust in him even to the point of rifling through their meager possessions. I doubt that they would have done the same to him. If this is an American classic, I pity this country and those who judge its literature. And this judgement also applies to some of the Amazon reviewers of this "book."