PAPERS OF WILL ROGERS 4/E

Will Rogers

ISBN 10: 0806137045 / ISBN 13: 9780806137049

Published by UNIV OF OKLAHOMA PR, 2005

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PAPERS OF WILL ROGERS 4/E | Will Rogers | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2005 | UNIV OF OKLAHOMA PR | EAN 9780806137049 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PAPERS OF WILL ROGERS 4/E
• Publisher: UNIV OF OKLAHOMA PR
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806137045
• ISBN 13: 9780806137049
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 164H x 40D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 40 millimeters depth
• Weight: 953 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In the early years of his performing career, Will Rogers was a vaudeville performer of limited prominence. Around the age of thirty-five, however, this Oklahoma cowboy philosopher shed his role as local stage entertainer and moved toward fame as a Broadway star and nationally beloved humorist. This documentary history, volume four in the definitive five-volume Papers of Will Rogers, reveals Rogers’s personal and professional transformation during what may have been the most productive period of his diverse career.

Between 1915 and 1928—the years covered by this volume—Rogers developed his unique monologues of topical humor, sampled the relatively new medium of radio, and pursued a career in silent films. He also tried his voice in sound recordings, witnessed his work as a writer reach millions of readers of daily newspapers, became one of the most sought-after speakers on the dinner circuit, and embarked on a three-year tour of the nation’s lecture halls.

In addition to Rogers’s personal correspondence with family members and friends, editors Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson present more than one hundred letters and telegrams to and from people Rogers touched both inside and outside public life, including prominent figures in politics, show business, literature, industry, government, publishing, and the arts. Much of this material, gleaned from private collections, interviews, manuscripts, and sound recordings, has never before been published.

About the Authors

Steven K. Gragert is Archivist and Historian for the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. 

M. Jane Johansson is Assistant Professor of History, Rogers State University, Pryor, Oklahoma.