A pleasurable read is to be had in a book that is both an homage and a legacy to an American as unique and priceless as Will Rogers. Those familiar with this one-of-a-kind cowboy-humorist will delight in the intimacy and the familiarity of the life and writings of Will Rogers presented so beautifully in Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like. For those who have not yet discovered this rich source of inspiration and insight, this book will open a door the reader will never regret passing through.
Author Joseph Carter Knows his subject well, playing Will Rogers in a one-man show every fall in Branson, Missouri. Bit it is in this book — first published in 1991 and having sold over 90,000 copies — that Carter evidences his knowledge and admiration for Will Rogers. From Rogers’ earliest days as a trick roper on the vaudeville stage to his triumphs with the legendary Ziegfield Follies and beyond to his appearances in 71 motion pictures, we follow not only the public man, but the family man, husband and father through a lifetime which elicited as much praise from others as he generously dispensed to those he met. Indeed, if Will Rogers never met a men he didn’t like, one would be hard-pressed to find a man who didn’t like him either………………………………