Now that Labor Day’s over, the real season of hard and often unrecognized work begins. Here’s Merle Haggard performing “Working Man Blues.”
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York. More by Ed Kilgore
Now that Labor Day’s over, the real season of hard and often unrecognized work begins. Here’s Merle Haggard performing “Working Man Blues.”
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Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York. More by Ed Kilgore
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