The End of Hope
August 01, 2003
Comedian Bob Hope, who died early this week at the age of 100, was an American cultural institution and a mass media phenomenon in films, radio and TV. He even had a website of his jokes. But he also filled another role, widely ignored in the coverage surrounding his death. He was the successor of Will Rogers and the predecessor of Johnny Carson as a "public oracle," in his day the preeminent ridiculer of officialdom. Bob speaks with William Robert Faith, colleague and biographer of Bob Hope.
