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Article: Will Rogers, Performer.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2008
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Will Rogers, Performer
Richard J. Maturi and Mary Buckingham Maturi
21st Century Publishers
1320 Curt Gowdy Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82009
ISBN 9780960729883, $24.95, 2008
"Will Rogers, Performer" is the only book I have read about Will Rogers, but it's a wonderful introduction to one of America's most loved performers. Previously, my only knowledge of Will Rogers was the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies" and his performance in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." I knew he had written newspaper columns and been in radio, as well as film and the Ziegfeld Follies, but I had no idea of the full extent of his ...