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A nostalgic return to Will Rogers' America; 100 photos and exclusive interviews with some of Rogers' famous friends. A warm look at a younger, more naive America through the eyes and words of Will Rogers: Wild-West shows and vaudeville, Hollywood, the silent movies and the "talkies" and America's favorite pastime, politics.

Presents a compendium of the wit and wisdom of American humorist Will Rogers, selected from among the most important of his newspaper columns.

A collection of the philosophy of American's beloved cowboy humorist-columnist-ambassador at large.

Will Rogers was quoted more often than any other source besides the Bible and Shakespeare. Now his insightful, never vulgar wit is brought together in a collection of sayings organized by topic.

"In this volume, the fourth in Series III of The Writings of Will Rogers, are found the Daily Telegrams od the famed humorist, cowboy philosopher published during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt from March 5, 1933, to Rogers' death on August 15, 1935." --Publishers description.

"In this volume, the sixth in Series IV of The Writings of Will Rogers, are found the Weekly Articles of the famed humorist and cowboy philosopher published during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt from March 1933 to Rogers' death in August 1935. These weekly columns were carried in newspapers across the country." --Publishers description.

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (1879-1935) was a comedian, social commentator, actor and one of the most famous personalities of the 1920s and 1930s.