America still needs John Prine

On a blustery winter day in early 1969, around the time of Richard Nixon’s first inauguration, John Prine worked his route as a mailman, delivering endless copies of Reader’s Digest across the Chicago suburb of Westchester. The magazine’s influence on U.S. politics was considerable: Founded in 1922, by the late ’60s it reached 18 million […]
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