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Please join Dr. Steven Watts, University of Missouri Professor Emeritus in American History, for a discussion of his newest biography, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People." Following the presentation, books will be available for purchase and signing from Skylark Books.
Please join Dr. Steven Watts, University of Missouri professor emeritus of American history, for a discussion of his newest biography, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People." Following the presentation, books will be available for purchase and signing from Skylark Books.
Steven Watts has charted the sweeping evolution of American culture in several highly praised books. His biographies of major figures — Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Dale Carnegie, Hugh Hefner, John F. Kennedy and now Will Rogers — have explored the shaping of a modern American value-system devoted to consumerism, self-fulfillment, leisure and personality. Two earlier books on the early republic era examined the shift from an older society of republican virtue to a 19th-century Victorian era devoted to self-control, individual character and the self-made man.
Watts’ books have been translated into many languages and reviewed in nearly every major newspaper and magazine in the United States. His essays have many feature in publications from The Atlantic to Newsweek and more. And he has been involved in many media film and TV projects.
