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Citizen Cowboy

By Steven Watts

Citizen Cowboy

By Steven Watts

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"Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth century's rapidly expanding consumer society. Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, syndicated newspaper and magazine writing, the lecture circuit, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers built his reputation as a folksy humorist whose wit made him a national symbol of common sense, common decency, and common people. Though a friend of presidents, movie stars and industrial leaders, it was his bond with ordinary people that endeared him to mass audiences. Making his fellow Americans laugh and think while honoring the past and embracing the future, Rogers helped ease them into the modern world and they loved him for it"--
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
470
Release Date:
2024-08-29
Publication Date:
2024-08-29
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1108495931
ISBN13:
9781108495936
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
908 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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