Alexander Botts

Alexander Botts sold Earthworm tractors and wrote a report to his boss after every business day. He was a traveling salesman and his customers were in small towns all over America. The reports describing his failures and successes are hilarious. They describe small town life in America and a time that has now gone by never to return.

The collected reports read like letters. They have been cleverly bound into small books that are plain, not fancy, but very funny.

Behind the text is an indelible picture of small town America brilliantly mixed with subtle humor that quietly creeps up on the reader and results in a chuckle every time. And sometimes a kind of silent laugh, and now and then a belly whopper-knee slapper.

I suppose Alexander Botts books have been long out of print, but if you ever spot one on somebodies library shelf . . . grab it. You'll be glad you did.