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Will Rogers Says...
Favorite Quotations Selected by the Will Rogers Memorial Staff
Edited by Dr. Reba Collins
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (2008)

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From our Purveyor of Books:
Several years ago we traveled through Oklahoma and spent some time at the Will Rogers Memorial. If you haven't been it is a "must see." We've been to his home out our way here in the Los Angeles area too. I didn't know much about him but the more I read, and the older I get, the more I enjoy his writings. This little book is packed with favorites quotes culled from over 2,000 offered for review by the staff of the Will Rogers Memorial.

As I write this our nation has just selected a new President-Elect, after a particularly bitter contest. We are uneasy, uncertain of the future, restless, and anxious. Our neighbors, colleagues, and coworkers are getting pink slips. Our cherished cultural institutions, opera and theater companies, and symphonies are closing their doors. Yet, our nation has been through this before and we have weathered these storms. Will Rogers' writings are as relevant today as they were 70 years ago.

When we laugh the clouds of fear, anxiety, and despair are relieved. Keep this book within reach, when you have an anxious moment let it fall open and you will find something to make you laugh. The clouds are lifted, if only for a moment.

Here's a sampling:

pg. 79 "I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it." Daily Telegram July 19,1934
pg. 74 "wYou can't broaden a man's vision if he wasent born with one." Weekly Articles April 22,1928
pg. 16. "We shouldn't elect a President; we should elect a magician." Daily Telegram May 26, 1930

About the Author
Reba Collins is Director Emeritus at the Will Rogers Memorial and Research Center in Claremore, Oklahoma. After eighteen years at Central State University (now the University of Central Oklahoma), where she was Professor in the Department of Journalism and served as head of public relations, Dr. Collins was selected to direct the memorial in 1975.

Hardcover. 86 packed pages.