Will Rogers' Weekly Articles, Volume 6: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935

Will Rogers' Weekly Articles #6

by Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert (Editor)

In this volume, the sixth in Series IV of The Writings of Will Rogers, are found the Weekly Articles of the famed humorist and cowboy philosopher published during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt from March 1933 to Rogers' death in August 1935. These weekly columns were carried in newspapers across the country.

309 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1979

About the author

People noted wry homespun commentary of American humorist William Penn Adair Rogers, known as Will, on society and politics.

This Cherokee cowboy, comedian, vaudeville performer, and actor fathered Will Rogers Jr., the congressman and veteran of World War II.

A mother bore Rogers, known as favorite son of Oklahoma, into a prominent family. This world-famous figure traveled around the world three times, made 50 silent films and 21 "talkie" movies, and wrote more than four thousand nationally-syndicated newspaper columns.

The American people adored Rogers, the top-paid movie star in Hollywood at the time before the mid-1930s. Rogers died with aviator Wiley Post, whose small airplane crashed near Barrow, Alaska territory.