Read by the most sophisticated audiences in the world, Will Rogers also spoke to and for the great normal majority. He tackled the most complex ideas and cut them down to size. A flying reporter, he traveled the world and wrote about events as if they were happening in the next county.
Since the Will Rogers Memorial opened in November, 1938, many of the 25 million visitors to the shrine have asked for his "gags," his jokes or his "sayings." Thousands of other folk have written to ask what Rogers had to say on particular topics - what sage remarks he made on Hoover, taxes, the depression or Hollywood, among other things.
Choice bits of his wit and wisdom on many subjects fill the pages of this book. Selected by the Memorial staff members from collected writings of Will Rogers (in 22 volumes), the sayings will make you nod your head and say, "You know, he's right about that!"
You will want to repeat them to friends over coffee. You can use them to spice up a speech or a column. Or to do your heart good as you chuckle to yourself on a long plane trip.
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Dr. Reba Collins, the country's foremost authority on Will Rogers, ahs devoted over a quarter of a century to understanding this unique American. In 1975, Dr. Collins left her position as journalism professor and Director of University Relations at the University of Central Oklahoma where she has served for seventeen years to take over the directorship of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma. She retired as Director Emeritus in 1991, but her research and writing about Will Rogers continues. Dr. Collins also continues to speak on her favorite American from coast to coast, in Hawaii and Alaska, on shipboard and on radio and television.
In addition to other books about Will Rogers, including "Will Rogers Courtship and Correspondence", "Will Rogers and Wiley Post in Alaska", "The Will Rogers Memorial" and "Roping Will Rogers' Family Tree", Dr. Collins has written numerous articles, newspaper features and introductions, and she was a major contributor to "Will Rogers: The Man and His Humor".
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