Steven Watts (Columbia University of Missouri)

Citizen Cowboy

Will Rogers and the American People

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Citizen Cowboy examines Will Rogers, one of twentieth-century America's most beloved cultural figures, and how his life and work reflected broader changes that created modern America. This book is for general readers interested in the history of American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 477
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781108495936
• ISBN-10: 1108495931
• Artikelnr.: 70104036

Inhaltsangabe

Author's note
Introduction: Will Rogers' America
1. The final frontier
2. The Cherokee kid
3. The vaudeville romance
4. Follies and frolics
5. The celluloid cowboy
6. An age of publicity
7. The American soul
8. Politics is applesauce
9. The unfunny business of trying to be funny
10. The private man
11. The little fellow and the Great Depression
12. Man in motion
13. The man talkies were invented for
Epilogue: Thy will be done
Acknowledgements.