SOURCE: "Will Rogers: Symbolic Man, Journalist, and Film Image," in Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1976, pp. 850-74.
In the following essay, Rollins argues that Rogers used his image to calm many of the social anxieties common to Americans at the time.
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