Will Rogers: Wise and Witty Sayings of a Great American Humorist

by Will Rogers

Book Overview

Copyright 1969. Will Rogers is an icon in Amercian Entertanment History. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875290264
• ISBN13: 9780875290263
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Hallmark Editions
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A populist for the ages

Will Rogers has no peer in America today, Rogers was a populist who is actually smart and wise, which is currently a contradiction in terms. Today's populists compromise theirselves by their loyalty to a political party. Rogers on the other hand was an equal opportunity skewerer of either party when they threatened the well-being of the common man. About the only peer today would be Bill Maher for the country's intellegsia, however due to the fragmentation of the media, we have no common spokesperson for populism, our loss. This is the Hallmark Edition and with contains not just the most popular of his sayings and excerpts from his newspaper columns, but also a great number of photographs of Mr. Rogers. What's especially fascinating is how timely many of these sayings are even today, like the following in the foreign policy section: "No nation has a monopoly of good things. Each has something the others could well afford to adopt.", or "Several papers have asked, 'What would Europe do if we (the U.S.) were in difficulties and needed help?' So this is in reply to those inquires: 'Europe would hold a celebration' ". Here's a sample of the wisdom: "The two finest things that can happen to a man is to have a good wife and to know that he's accepted by the people he comes from." This a tiny book packed with wisdom and hilarity, highly recommended to put out where it can reviewed when a spare amount is available.