CLAREMORE – The Will Rogers Memorial Museum will host a book signing and conversation with Steven Watts for his book “Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People” from 4-5 p.m., Nov. 3.
“Citizen Cowboy is 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 media and entertainment in the early twentieth century’s rapidly expanding consumer society,” states a press release from the book’s publisher, Cambridge University Press. “Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, syndicated newspaper and magazine writing, the lecture circuit, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers built his reputation as a folksy humorist whose wit made him a national symbol of common sense, common decency and common people.”
Copies of the book will be available for purchase through the author at the event.
For more information, call 918-341-0719 or visit willrogers.com.
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