Historian Steven Watts Author of “Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People”

Name: Historian Steven Watts Author of “Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People”
Start: 2024-11-18T20:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Louis County Library

Schedule

Mon Nov 18 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St. Louis County Library | Frontenac, MO

Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, Steven Watts presents 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 entertainment in the early twentieth century. Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers built his reputation as a folksy humorist whose wit made him a national symbol of the 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.
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