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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers A lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most important characters, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Biographers of Will Rogers are always confronted with a tough job, because the set of things Will Rogers didn't do is a much shorter one than the set of things he did. By enough time he perished in 1935 in a airplane crash in Alaska, he was one of the very most famous men on earth and one of the very most versatile celebrities. Which has a profession spanning several ages and the majority of his life, Rogers not only dabbled in vaudeville, film, writing, and politics but reached the pinnacle of the majority of those occupations, even if they were similar to hobbies to him. Because of the 1930s, he was not only a syndicated columnist but also the highest paid acting professional in Hollywood and widely considered an important voice in the Democratic Get together. Rogers was also frequently on the air and frequently on the road, traveling about the world many times and going when he perished. While he was famous among his contemporaries for a wide variety of things, Will Rogers continues to be children name practically 80 years after his fatality. Even those who don't recall everything that he packed into his 55 years - the concert events, the movies, the air broadcasts, and the 4,000 magazine columns that were read by practically a full third of the population - keep in mind what Rogers stood for.

Category: Biographical