Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the 20's and 30's and 80's and 90's

by Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling

Overview

Will Rogers still touches us more than a hlf century after his death in this comprehensive collection of his pithy commentaries about goverment, presidents, business, and philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871317353
Publisher:	M. Evans & Company
Publication date:	09/28/1993
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.81(d)

Editorial Reviews

Not a biography, this readable book is primarily a collection of quotations and miscellaneous sayings by the famed newspaper columnist, actor, and rope-twirling cowboy. The selections are grouped under the headings America, Congress, elections, government, presidents, politics, business, and philosophy. The compilers supply a running commentary. What this collection proves is that, although Rogers died in 1935, his humor is no mildewed anachronism. He was never bitter or brutal; he never hit anybody very hard, nor below the belt. Other recent collections of his writing include Sterling's own The Best of Will Rogers (Crown, 1979) and A Will Rogers Treasury (Outlet Bk. Co., 1986).-- A.J. Anderson, Graduate Sch. of Lib. & Information Science, Simmons Coll., Boston

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