Will Rogers and His America

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by Gary Clayton Anderson

Type

Biographies

Subject

Actor > Will Rogers

Keywords

Will Rogers, actor, western

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

1st publishing

2011

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 244 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8061-9176-8

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Book Presentation:
Born on a farm in the Cherokee Nation near present Oologah, Oklahoma, in 1879, Will Rogers shared his rural, agricultural beginnings with many Americans at the turn of the century. But Rogers brought his small-town talents to a national audience, becoming a mainstay of early American mass culture. Although Rogers is remembered today for his success in vaudeville and the nascent American film industry, history has largely forgotten his considerable influence as a political commentator, an aspect of Rogers’s life that Gary Clayton Anderson explores at length in this brief but complete biography.

Rogers’s contributions to early American mass culture, the catalog of powerful personages that he counted among his friends, and his extensive writings about the political issues of the day make Rogers an ideal figure through which to explore the American interwar period. High school and college students will relate well to Rogers, whose political opinions evolved as he gained exposure to people, places, organizations, and ideas beyond rural Oklahoma. Rogers’s conflicted relationship with his indigenous American heritage also provides a window on the history of race relations in America.

This paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author, along with study and discussion questions for every chapter.

About the Author:
Gary Clayton Anderson, George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma , is author of The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875. His book The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention won the Angie Debo Prize and the publication award from the San Antonio Conservation Society.

See the publisher website: University of Oklahoma Press

See the complete filmography of Will Rogers on the website: IMDB ...