Alleen Pace Nilsen
ALLEEN PACE NILSEN is assistant vice president for academic affairs at Arizona State University. With her husband, Don L. F. Nilsen, she was co-chair of the WHIM Humor Conferences at ASU from 1981-87. She presented a version of this essay at the Seventh WHIM Humor Conference at Purdue University, 1-4 April 1988.
Evan Mecham: Humor in Arizona Politics
Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 3
Through the spring and summer of 1987, Arizona residents had a wonderful time laughing about their newly elected governor, Evan Mecham. Mon day mornings were brighter because people brought to work new jokes they had…
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