Tough Daisies: Kansas Humor from the Lane County Bachelor to Bob Dole

by C. Robert Haywood

Book Overview

By reputation, Kansas isn't the funniest place on earth. But it has its share of humor. It can boast of politicians who taunted puritan farmers with "raise less corn and more hell," a gubernatorial candidate whose claim to fame was perfecting and marketing a goat-gland transplant for men desperate to restore their sexual vigor, and a legendary attorney general who covertly flew the friendly skies of Kansas in hot pursuit of illegal liquor consumption...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607323
• ISBN13: 9780700607327
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"