Citizen Cowboy - Will Roger and the American People

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

• Authors: Steven Watts, Steven (University of Missouri Watts
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781108495936
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49593-6
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Individual actors & performers, Films, cinema, Biography: arts & entertainment, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of the Americas, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General