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As seen in: Kiplinger, Issuu, Netflix Tudum, Constant Contact, Nashville Scene, Baton Rouge Business Report, The Bluegrass Situation, The Contributor
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Clay Risen’s ‘Red Scare’ Offers a Fresh Take on McCarthyism

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By Jim Patterson Verified
| Nashville Scene Verified
In his preface to Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, Clay Risen states an intention to resist “drawing parallels between the past and the present.” In conversation, that resistance goes by the wayside quickly.
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'Things Done Changed' For Jerron Paxton – Now He Writes the Songs, Too - The Bluegrass Situation

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By Jim Patterson Verified, Justin Hiltner
| The Bluegrass Situation Verified
The music, sparse and spooky, sounds at the same time strangely universal and possibly from the last century, but as Jerron Paxton notes in his album title, Things Done Changed. The major difference on Paxton’s fifth album (including his 2021 duet set with Dennis Lichtman) is a big one. He wrote the songs. “It wasn’t a very difficult decision,” Paxton said. “I had always had a list of tunes to record of my own compositions.
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Alice Driver Investigates Negligence and Exploitation at Tyson Foods

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By Jim Patterson Verified
| Nashville Scene Verified
Sorry, but there is no way to tell you about Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker without disgusting you. Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company By Alice Driver Atria/One Signal 272 pages, $28.99 Here’s what Victor, a machine operator at Tyson Foods’ Chick-N-Quick plant in Rogers, Ark., has to say about the ingredients in chicken nuggets, according to the book: “Many times, the chicken is rotten,” Victor says.
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