Rogers, Will (1879-1935)
Humorist Will Rogers' impact upon American culture was great and lasting. He made himself into the archetypal American Everyman, apparently baffled and out-smarted by t...
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One of the most celebrated humorists and public figures of his day, Will Rogers (1879-1935) offered dry, whimsical commentaries on a plethora of political, social, and economic issues. His aphoristic,...
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William Penn Adair Rogers, according to his biographers, was the last of the cracker-barrel philosophers, that tradition of American humor which includes Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain...
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In the following essay, Canby discusses Rogers in the context of other "homespun philosophers."
Will Rogers was a fellow of infinite jest, a true Shakespearian clown, who used clownin...
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In the following essay, Blair surveys early humorists who influenced Rogers.
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Plenty of people in 1930 were ready to swear that, in Kin Hubbard and Will Rogers, the twentieth century had produced ...
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In the following essay, Yates explains the ways in which Rogers adapted and modified the tradition of nineteenth-century American humorists.
As a frontispiece to the revised edition (1960) of his b...
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In the following essay, Brown examines Rogers's use of the "rugged individualist" philosophy in his work.
Will Rogers was dedicated to the vision of man as being intrinsically ...
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In the following essay, Rollins argues that Rogers used his image to calm many of the social anxieties common to Americans at the time.
On August 15, 1935, Will Rogers and his pilot Wiley Post were...
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In the following essay, Rollins explains his attempt to revive the Will Rogers tradition in his own writing.
Will Rogers had an enormous impact on the people of his time, but sometimes I wonder if ...
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In the following essay, Yagoda provides an explication of Rogers's political beliefs.
Politically, Will was a little hard to pin down. What was one to make of a columnist who, as occasion de...
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In the following excerpt, Schechter examines Rogers's use of satire in his writings and performance.
Long before a former Hollywood actor entered the White House, theater was inextricably li...
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A wintry storm caked America's center with a thick layer of ice Monday, blacking out more than half a million homes and businesses, and more icy weather was on the way. At least 13 people were kill...
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Las Vegas (dpa) - A federal judge on Thursday gave the green light
to hold voting in Saturday's Democratic primaries in nine casino
hotels along the Las Vegas strip in a mov...
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Museum of the Moving Image at 35th Avenue and 36th Street in Astoria, Queens, is in the midst of a massive Ford at Fox retrospective that has already shown such John Ford silents as Just Pals (1920...
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Beyond its cluster of office towers, Tulsa is a city built close to the ground, a broad clash of neighborhoods you can tell apart by how the grass grows, bright and trim as a putting green in the r...
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“Don’t gamble: take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”
—Will Rogers
Yogi...
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“Don’t gamble: take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.” —Will Rogers
Yogi Berr...
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Today is Tuesday, July 10, the 191st day of 2007. There are 174 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces ...
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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2007. There are 138 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced to his subjects in a pre-recorded r...
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Officially, Route 66 no longer exists.
It was replaced by the federal highway system beginning in the 1950s _ by I-55 from Chicago to St. Louis; by I-44 from St. Louis to Oklahoma Cit...
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This is a perfect time to consider making Oklahoma your next vacation destination as the state begins observing its centennial, celebrating a century that has carried it from cowboys on horseb...
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Rogers, Will
Rogers, Will (1879-1935)
Will Rogers
Will(iam) (Penn Adair) Rogers
Critical Essay by Henry Seidel Canby
Storm ices roads from southern US Plains to Northeast, causes blackouts and traffic deaths
