Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President, Volume I by Will Rogers (1926 1st Edition Hardcover in Dust Jacket)

Some of Will Rogers' great humor around famous politicans and celebrities of his time. Vol. One (although Rogers admits that he had no intention to produce a Vol. Two!)

Humorous narrative of Rogers' trip to Europe. "My trip comes at a time when foreign relations are at their most perilous peak; that is, when we were trying to collect money. Any fool can fight a war, but it takes a smart man to jar any loose change out of any part of Europe".

William Penn Adair Rogers (1879–1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, 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. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.

Hardcover has brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine & front, in an almost complete dust jacket. Dust Jacket has a sunburnt spine and lost a strip across top, now protected in clear plastic. Interior is tight, clean and unmarked except for an inventory number written in pencil on ffep.

Copyright 1926. Printed in U.S.A. No ISBN nor LCCN. MSR = US $2.00.