In a selection of Rogers' own words, lassoed together by Day, Will Rogers tells how he became the spokesman and the watchdog for the inarticulate public in a period of dramatic change in American life. A great American, a great democrat, a great internationalist, and not a bad rodeo man, Will's simple directness spoke to -the big, Honest Majority-, in whom his faith was steady.
Donald Day taught at the University of South Dakota, served as editor of the
Southwest Review, and later became an editor of
Reader's Digest. Day is the author of
The Autobiography of Will Rogers and
Big Country, Texas. He prepared similar collections on Woodrow Wilson and Sam Houston.