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Will Rogers; Ambassador of Good Will - Prince of Wit and Wisdom by O'Brien, P. J
Book Description
1935. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Photographs. The way men laugh and the things they laugh at reflect their tastes, thoughts, and sympathies. . . . Society offers its pulse in the nature of its laughter." The career of Will Rogers is the finest illustration you could find of these observations. If we hadn't had him during the last ten years, if we hadn't appreciated him and had the sense to laugh with him and at ourselves, we should have been a sad people. He first burgeoned out as the Smiling Prophet of America in the era of the Great Insanity, which culminated in the cataclysm of November, 1929. Rogers poured out a steady stream of sparkling common sense that helped us retain some sort of perspective. The only pose in Will Rogers was the pretense that he was an ignorant and illiterate fellow. Though he made a bluff at concealing it, his writings from time to time betrayed an exceedingly wide knowledge. The system behind his humor was an old one. It can be described in one word - Truth. That, in the last analysis, is what Will Rogers gave us. - Lowell Thomas, in Appreciation. 288 pages with photographs and illustrations. Light bends on spine ends. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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