The Quotable Will Rogers - Couverture rigide

Carter, Joseph H.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1586856960 ISBN 13 : 9781586856960

Editeur : Gibbs Smith, 2005

Synopsis

Joe Carter's exceptional knowledge of Will Rogers receives high praise from Larry Gatlin, who claims "Carter knows more about the late great Will Rogers than anybody else in the known world and parts of Oklahoma."

Will Rogers captured the hearts of Americans with his thoughtful political humor; his dedication to country, family and friends; and his amazing ability to speak truth to life's fundamentals. In this delightful new biography, author Joseph Carter covers the details of Rogers's family history, the many milestones in his professional life, and America's fascination with this incredible figure. Rogers's famous quotes and quips are woven throughout the book, making it a thoroughly enjoyable read from start to finish.

Learn the fascinating history of Will Rogers, and have his most memorable quotes collected in one place:

"A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is associating with smarter people."

"We don't have to worry about anything. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit."

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."

"Remember, write to your Congressman. Even if he can't read, write to him."

"It takes nerve to be a Democrat, but it takes money to be a Republican."

"Best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what's the matter. He's just got to know. "

"Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. Even the people in them hate them."

"Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve? But we can't find one politician in a million with backbone."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph H. Carter and his wife, Michelle, manage Oklahoma's nine-gallery Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore and 400-acre 1879 birthplace ranch near Oologah. Carter, a former White House speech writer, university vice president and newsman, wrote Never Met a Man I Didn't Like: The Life and Writings of Will Rogers, consulted in the opening of the Broadway musical The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue, and assisted the University of Oklahoma in publishing the scholarly five-volume Papers of Will Rogers. Joseph and his wife live in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Extrait. © Reproduit sur autorisation. Tous droits réservés.

All About Will

Election day, November 4, 1879, in the southeast corner room of a log-walled, colonial-style seven-room house, Mary America Schrimsher Rogers gave birth to the son of Clement Vann Rogers, their eighth and final child.

"I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day. . . . My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year. "

Clement Vann Rogers and Mary America Schrimsher met while attending a boarding school in the Cherokee Nation capital of Tahlequah. Mary loved her studies, was refined, musically gifted and a Methodist. Clem despised school, was a hard-riding cattleman and commercially astute. They married and moved to his Cooweescoowee District ranch two years before the Civil War started.

The proud father dubbed the newborn Colonel William Penn Adair Rogers, as a salute to the Indian military leader who was his battalion commander during the terrible War Between the States. The Civil War that had ended fourteen years earlier had left stains of blood across the Cherokee Nation, where Indian clans and even cousins fought each other in a senseless battle fifteen hundred miles away.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gibbs Smith
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586856960
• ISBN 13: 9781586856960
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas