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Quotable Will Rogers, The

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"The Unreadable Will Rogers" is a better title for this book. The designers opted to print the quotes in solid caps in a pale orange color typeface that is very, very difficult to read. When the quotes appear over a half-tone illustration, the text is, in fact, unreadable. The picture captions are printed in red in footnote-size type and are also very difficult to read. To enjoy this book you will need 20/20 eyesight, a good magnifying glass, and no color blindness problems. A real pity! It might have been a good book!
James B. Saunders, Astoria, NY

From Stevie Harrison, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Please tell Mr. Carter that I got an A in American Literature class with my review of his book on sayings by Will Rogers. Both my parents enjoyed the book, and my teacher wants me to lend it to her.

Do you have his other books for sale? Is Mr. Carter writing another book?

Stevie Harrison and Rafael Calderòn.

Will Rogers was a humorist and 'Cowboy Philosopher' and reading his quotes from the 1920's and 30's, it's remarkable and eerie how consistently accurate, apropos and still grimly funny much of what he had to say back then is still relevant today, some 80-90 years later. It's a little depressing for that reason too, but it's hard to be too depressed by reading someone whose warmth and humor and humanity still shines through in his work, however aptly cynical his words may be.