The Illiterate Digest.

ROGERS, Will.

Item Number: 137408

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924.

First edition of Will Rogers’ second book, illustrated with cartoons by Nate Collier. Octavo, original cloth, with thirty illustrations by Nate Collier. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Throughout the course of his career, American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator Will Rogers made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was the highest paid of Hollywood film stars. The New York Times syndicated his weekly newspaper column from 1922 to 1935. Going daily in 1926, his short column "Will Rogers Says" reached 40 million newspaper readers. He also wrote frequently for the mass-circulation upscale magazine The Saturday Evening Post. Rogers advised Americans to embrace the frontier values of neighborliness and democracy on the domestic front, while remaining clear of foreign entanglements.